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To: TGPTNDR who wrote (83176)	6/21/2002 11:17:27 AM
From: wanna_bmw	Read Replies (2) of 275872

tgp, Re: "Notice that in the Anand test on their large db that the Xeon 2400 performs worse with HT Enabled than without?" Only in one out of three tests. Hyperthreading needs some improvements, but the technology is already there. Re: "Notice that in the Anand test on their large db that the Athlon MP 2100 and 2000 both outperform the Xeon 2.4?" Again, only in one out of three tests. And I'm sure you read this, too? What's interesting is that although we saw a pretty big performance boost enabling Hyper Threading on the 2.2GHz platform, we noticed absolutely no change when we did the same on the dual 2.4GHz setup. The two systems were identical leading us to believe that something else was preventing the Xeon from spreading its wings with Hyper Threading enabled. The only theory we had was that we were running into an I/O bottleneck with Hyper Threading enabled and thus we didn't get any tangible performance improvement from enabling the technology. Based on the performance boost we saw with the 2.2GHz platform, we expected Hyper Threading to put the 2.4GHz Xeon over the top. We will be testing this more over the coming weeks to try and discover what caused the anomaly." What you should be wondering is what AMD needs besides performance parity to make inroads into higher volume servers, rather than their current white box niche. For that, they need OEM support, at least. Hammer has the best potential, I think, for an OEM design win. Otherwise, I can care less about benchmarks on Anandtech - those won't vastly increase AMD's MP sales. wbmw

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