[Freeswitch-users] AMD

[Anthony Minessale]

If you want an opinionated answer to help you decide:

Always use Intel.  AMD is Intel's R&D department.  The performance is
better and the hyperthreading on modern Intel is fine.


On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 2:01 PM, Abaci B <abaci64 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm debating between a 4x AMD 6276 (64 cores total) and 4x Intel E7-8867L
> (40 cores/80 threads), I wish I would be able to afford both and see which
> one (AMD vs Intel) is better... so if I know that hyperthreading is
> boosting performance I would probably stick to intel as in general it's
> better and it's more cores.
>
> On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 2:48 PM, Michael Jerris <mike at jerris.com> wrote:
>
>> Have not tested it lately, but likely still true, in regards to "I
>> guess"... why not just try it and see for sure?
>>
>> On Feb 16, 2016, at 2:15 PM, Abaci B <abaci64 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I remember in the early days of FreeSWITCH it was recommended to turn off
>> hyperthreading as it had a negative impact on FreeSWITCH performace, Can
>> someone confirm if this has changed with newer processors or newer kernel,
>> if hyperthreading boosts performance then I would guess that a 10 core xeon
>> would give me at least as much performace as a 16 core AMD.
>> Thanks
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 12:52 PM, Michael Jerris <mike at jerris.com> wrote:
>>
>>> You would have to test to see, most of my experience is a couple chip
>>> generations back now but bang for the buck was much better with intel then
>>> and we saw many more weird issues on AMD boxes.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sunday, February 14, 2016, Abaci B <abaci64 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>> I know that in general Intel Xeon processors are recommended over AMD
>>>> for FreeSWITCH, my question is if AMD is really bad or just not as good as
>>>> Intel, I can get now a server with 4x AMD 6174 (48 Core total) for about
>>>> the same price I would pay for a Dual Xeon 6 Core (12 core total), Should I
>>>> go for the AMD which will give me 4x the amount of cores or stick to Xeon,
>>>> my goal is to get the maximum amount of channels/calls  (doing lua IVR with
>>>> no transcoding) and conferencing.
>>>> Any help, feedback, benchmarks or personal experience would be
>>>> appreciated
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>
>>
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