High-End CPU�s from AMD and Intel Compared

GamePC
As you can see from the past few pages of benchmarks, AMD's Opteron looks to be the clear winner in terms of webserver and file server performance. If given the choice between these two CPU's to go into our servers, we would certainly choose the Opteron. The combination of the Opteron's memory controller, dedicated memory busses, and high-bandwidth HyperTransport system board links appears to propel the Opteron in to the lead over the Xeon. Frankly, the Apache benchmarks were the kicker for us, as when we first recognized how much more efficient the Opteron was processing data in compared to the Xeon. The difference was quite noticeable, and certainly cemented the Opteron as a very potent server CPU in our minds.