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[chipguy]

I think it's obvious from that data that SPECint is *not* a good database performance indicator.

The POWER4 and POWER5 families are perhaps the best
examples of high performance for commercial workloads not
equating to high performance for SPECint.

Between commercial, technical, and PC/desktop workloads,
SPECint by *far* most closely correlates to PC/desktop type
applications. So it is not surprising that x86 MPUs tend to do
well on SPECint.

[jhalada]

wbmw,

SpecInt does not care about 64 bitness, database cares a great deal. SpecInt does not care about the amount of memory, database performance depends a lot on it (Itanium in your example has 2x memory).

In addition to these greatly unbalancing variables. In addition to these, the Itanium server has 2x controllers and 2x hard drives.

The problem with TPC-C benchmark is that you rarely if ever get to compare apples to apples.

Joe