AMD Tops the SPECweb2005 Charts in Both 2P and 4P

It’s no secret that in the past two years, AMD’s processor line-ups have been in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons. But, their products are still undeniably high-performance parts, and they prove it once again today with new reports that they now hold two top spots on SPEC’s web2005 benchmark.

SPEC is a company that produces advanced benchmarks for many various test types. web2005 is built around stressing a systems ability to handle common web server traffic, such as e-commerce, banking and support tickets. AMD now holds the top spot for both 2P and 4P systems, with their 2356 and 8356 Opteron processors, respectively.

The higher-end of the two is the 8356, found inside an HP ProLiant DL585 G5. The machine scored 43,854, beating the second-place system, using an Intel X7350, by 1,071 points. The jaw-dropping rig features 16 cores operating at 2.31GHz, 64GB DDR2-667 RAM and ran Linux, using the ext2 filesystem.

Demonstrating its superior ability to handle the strenuous and increasing demands placed on today’s high-traffic Web-based businesses, AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced that the power- and cost-efficient Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor Model 2356 and Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor Model 8356 now hold the top x86 web performance records for both 2P and 4P servers, as measured by the SPECweb2005 benchmark.