Intel and AMD in a Web Application Shoot-out
by Jason Clark on October 18, 2004 12:05 AM EST- Posted in
- IT Computing
PHP Test Results
PHP is an HTML embedded scripting language, which is open source and runs on almost every operating system out there. PHP was originally written by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1994. It gained acceptance and established a user base, and as a result, it has become one of most popular web scripting languages in the world. We chose PHPNuke as our test application because of how well-known it is in the PHP community. Originally, we started by using PHP 5.0, but PHPNuke doesn't seem to work with 5.0. So, we ended up using PHP 4.3.9, the latest 4.x build available at the time of this article's publication.Due to the fact that all of the operations occurring during this test are interpreted, it's not surprising that the numbers are close to our deviation. The PHP interpreter, obviously, doesn't favor one CPU architecture over another. The results are within approximately 3% of each other.
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Beenthere - Monday, October 18, 2004 - link
Why would you use a 40 GB 7200RPM 8MB Cache IDE Drive for a performance server??? Wouldn't you use a faster/larger drive or dual drives???tyski34 - Monday, October 18, 2004 - link
#4"The difference between the Opteron and Xeon here was approximately 3%, which isn't far off our deviation of 2.5%."
= a draw statistically
gherald - Monday, October 18, 2004 - link
Why yes #4, it is clear that the Opterons bested the Xeons in the ColdFusion and PHP tests by a slim margin. But tech writers call such things draws, since such small percentage points in performance are fairly negligeable.Boonesmi - Monday, October 18, 2004 - link
"The results throughout much of these tests were a draw, right up until the Microsoft .NET tests"huh? the opteron was fastest in every benchmark except the .NET tests.... a draw would have been if each platform has won some and lost some.
bozilla - Monday, October 18, 2004 - link
If someone would read this from anandtech and do a test between these 2 configuration for content creation and test these computers as workstations, with the design/video/3d applications. What I'm asking for I guess is comparison between the best AMD has to offer against the latest Intel offering. I think this is only fair, since as we all know these workstation can cost as low as $4k (if self-built) as oppose to single CPU machines from Falcon Northwest or Alienware that cost pretty much the same. I think that many people like me who are in creative profession would like to see who is the performance king in dual system for this field. Maybe you should definitely include gaming tests and compare these dual machines with single CPU machines (FX53, P4EE, P4 560)Thanks.
Ardan - Monday, October 18, 2004 - link
LOL thats a good summary :)Denial - Monday, October 18, 2004 - link
To save everyone the 2 minutes it takes to read this...For the 32 bit apps which were tested, the difference is negligible.
Move along now.
Mathan kb02 - Wednesday, August 19, 2020 - link
Great post about web app