Question about server chips

[jazzman]

What is the difference between an AMD Sempron/Celeron/Athlon chip and a Pentium4?

Is the P4 3.0 ghz chip same/better/worse than the AMD Athlon 3000?

Is the ghz the over riding factor?

[NyteOwl]

What is the difference between an AMD Sempron/Celeron/Athlon chip and a Pentium4?

Is the P4 3.0 ghz chip same/better/worse than the AMD Athlon 3000?

Is the ghz the over riding factor?

The Semperon is the replacement in the AMD line of the older Duron processor and is targeted at competing with the Celeron for the low-end desktop market. It lacks the cache and some of the memory managemetn found in higher end chips such as the Athlon and Pentium.

The P4/3G and AthlonXP/3G are about equivalent. In some applications the AMD performs better in other the P4 does. In a server I doubt you would notice much difference, except in price.

Any processor can be used for any purpose (pretty much) and the main difference will be performance. WHat one then has to decide is the price/performance value point you want to hit and shop accordingly.

There is more to selecting a system than just the processor speed. The buss speeds, memory controller and type of supported memory and similar considerations all play a part.

[Darkstarx]

Is the P4 3.0 ghz chip same/better/worse than the AMD Athlon 3000?

They'd be about equal. It really depends on what the machine is doing.

[OCX]

What is the difference between an AMD Sempron/Celeron/Athlon chip and a Pentium4?

Is the P4 3.0 ghz chip same/better/worse than the AMD Athlon 3000?

Is the ghz the over riding factor?

excluding the Sempron,

for one you cant compare AMD and Intels clock speed as a source for a decision,

from experiance iv always used AMD Opteron cpus..they run,run,run AND run
no issues.


hope this helps you some.

OCX

[jacknoc]

I would go with AMD hehehe... ;)

[crazyabs]

buy amd if you want better performance. buy intel if you want your friends too look you as rich. AMD is better. but if you have money go with the quadcore intel. amd quadcore will be release by mid june i think. not sure.

[flashweb]

I will go with Latest AMD or Pentium D. I used to run ubenchmark on my servers, here are some of the result.


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Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.66GHz
512 MB
Linux 2.6.12-1.1381_FC3

Ubench CPU: 47593
Ubench MEM: 107257
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Ubench AVG: 77425

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Celeron 2.4 Ghz
512 MB
FreeBSD 5.4

Ubench CPU: 57101
Ubench MEM: 70461
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Ubench AVG: 63781
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Cel 2.4 Ghz
512 MB
Linux 2.4.21-37.EL

Ubench CPU: 79963
Ubench MEM: 95972
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Ubench AVG: 87967
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CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz (3192.01-MHz 686-class CPU)
1 GB
FreeBSD 5.4

Ubench CPU: 100485
Ubench MEM: 124195
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Ubench AVG: 112340
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P4 3.6 G
1 GB
Linux 2.6.8.1

Ubench CPU: 95065
Ubench MEM: 159151
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Ubench AVG: 127108
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Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz (2992.52-MHz 686-class CPU)
2 GB RAM
FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE

Ubench CPU: 81095
Ubench MEM: 110288
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Ubench AVG: 95691
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Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz
2 GB RAM
CentOS release 4.2 (Final)

Ubench CPU: 107552
Ubench MEM: 195743
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Ubench AVG: 151647
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AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3800+

FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE

Ubench CPU: 111706
Ubench MEM: 119567
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Ubench AVG: 115636

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Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz
2 GB RAM
FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE

Ubench CPU: 79982
Ubench MEM: 113348
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Ubench AVG: 96,665
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Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.20GHz (Dual CPU, top shows 4 cpu)
2 GB RAM
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 3
Linux version 2.4.21-27.ELsmp

Ubench CPU: 210341
Ubench MEM: 241480
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Ubench AVG: 225910
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Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.80GHz
Linux 2.4.21-9.ELsmp #1 SMP
2 GB
Ubench CPU: 194072
Ubench MEM: 189444
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Ubench AVG: 191758
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AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 246 (2 CPU)
Linux 2.6.9-34.0.1.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed May 24 05:28:30 CDT 2006 x86_64
2 GB
Ubench CPU: 223253
Ubench MEM: 311414
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Ubench AVG: 267333
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Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz (With HT)
Linux 2.4.21-40.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Mar 15 14:21:45 EST 2006 i686
1 GB
Ubench CPU: 105075
Ubench MEM: 131093
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Ubench AVG: 118084
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Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz
1 GB RAM
Linux 2.6.15-23-server #1 SMP Tue May 23 15:10:35 UTC 2006 i686
Ubench CPU: 87728
Ubench MEM: 98719
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Ubench AVG: 93223
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Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.20GHz * 2
2 GB
Linux 2.6.9-34.0.2.ELsmp #1 SMP Fri Jun 30 10:33:58 EDT 2006 i686
Ubench CPU: 211908
Ubench MEM: 273988
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Ubench AVG: 242948
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AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+ / 36 GB SCSI
1 GB
Linux 2.6.9-42.0.2.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Aug 23 13:38:27 BST 2006 x86_64
Ubench CPU: 246067
Ubench MEM: 331627
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Ubench AVG: 288847
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Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 3.40GHz * 2
2 GB
Linux 2.6.9-42.0.3.ELsmp #1 SMP Mon Sep 25 17:28:02 EDT 2006 i686
Ubench CPU: 204969
Ubench MEM: 299925
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Ubench AVG: 252447
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Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 3.40GHz * 2
2 GB
CentOS 4.4
Linux 2.6.9-42.0.3.ELsmp #1 SMP Fri Oct 6 06:28:26 CDT 2006 x86_64
Ubench CPU: 298120
Ubench MEM: 294793
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Ubench AVG: 296456

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[ReliableServers]

Intel gets my vote :) Never had any problems with them.

[hulkhosting]

AMD or Intel

[WiredTree Zac]

AMD did have better performance in the previous generation of CPUs, but with the new Xeon Woodcrest and Core 2 Duos, Intel has pushed ahead in performance for now.

[AMHASH]

excluding the Sempron,

for one you cant compare AMD and Intels clock speed as a source for a decision,

from experiance iv always used AMD Opteron cpus..they run,run,run AND run
no issues.


hope this helps you some.

OCX


I second this... AMD Opteron based servers rock!:banana:

[QuadStandard]

dual core seems to be very popular now ...

[kohz87]

I second this... AMD Opteron based servers rock!:banana:

I agree as well, that why I love my dual opteron server :P

[ttechpt]

Dual core is a must have (Intel or AMD, but I prefer Intel).

[billiam2003]

I also feel that dual core is better to get. I also like intel better than amd I have used both and feel that better performance comes from intel.

[QuickyHosting]

AMD is cheaper but other than that there is no real difference,

[kohz87]

AMD did have better performance in the previous generation of CPUs, but with the new Xeon Woodcrest and Core 2 Duos, Intel has pushed ahead in performance for now.

I do agree with this part, as of current I have a dual opteron server, But I might be moving on with Woodcrest or Core 2 Duos to compare the performances.

[danserv]

AMD own Intel any day, work faster, lower temperatures and generally I love AMD, but, I do have 3 intel servers.

Forums tend to run better on Intels I think, but general other sites on AMD :)