PostgreSQL Performance - Re: [GENERAL] experiences needed - how does Itanium2/1.5GHz(4MB) compare to AMD and Intel CPUs as f

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Re: [GENERAL] experiences needed - how does Itanium2/1.5GHz(4MB) compare to AMD and Intel CPUs as f

Jim C. Nasby

2006-03-27, 7:41 am

On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 08:11:22PM +0100, Tomaz Borstnar wrote:
> Hello!
>
> First tried some searching around, but did not find anything useful
> so I gave up and decided to ask here... I am wondering how do pair of
> 1.5GHz Itanium2(4MB cache) stack up against pair of AMD or Intel server
> CPUs as far as postgresql performance is concerned? Is it worthy or not?

-performance would be a better place to ask, so I'm moving this there.

The general consensus is that your best bet CPU-wise is Opterons.
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