AMD Opteron Coverage - Part 2: Enterprise Performance

Next up on the test list is our Ad Database Server test bench. All of the ads across AnandTech and the AnandTech Forums are served using e-Zone Media's FuseAds advertising management software. The software was custom tailored to fit our needs and is tightly integrated with our internal content management system. The end result is that the ad placement, rotation, statistics and customization is very flexible and easy to use for our sales staff, however its tight integration with the entire network means that this server is just as important as the content feeding servers. Should the Ad Database be slow to respond or not respond at all because of an overwhelming load, the entire site and forums would slow to a crawl.

AnandTech Ad Database Performance Transactions per Second AMD Opteron 244 (1.80GHz) AMD Opteron 242 (1.60GHz) AMD Opteron 240 (1.40GHz) Intel Xeon 2.80GHz AMD Athlon MP 2400+ (2.00GHz) 496.0 494.9 481.8 442.4 429.4 | 0 | 99 | 198 | 298 | 397 | 496 | 595

Although all of the Opterons manage to outperform Intel's Xeon, the 244 (1.80GHz) extends a healthy 12% lead over Intel's offering. Even a 3.06GHz Xeon would not be able to close up that gap, although a 1MB L2 part might help...