We are having this new servers installed. And I kept hearing 2-way and 4-way servers. I automatically assumed they were talking about the processor type 2 being Dual-Core and 4 being Quad-Core. WRONG.
2-way servers having two processors regardless of the type. Of course that depends on the motherboard and what it can support and its upgrade limitations. 4-way servers have four processors. That was interesting.
One point was intriguing me and I asked the technician. First of all Dual-processors can process two threads simultaneously and Quad-processors can process four. This is very useful for high performance applications, high resolution videos and especially games where you have multiple processes running and being executed at the same time. What I wanted to know was if I had 2-way server with Quad-Core installed vs 4-way server with Dual-Core installed will they perhaps have the same performance?
He said yes. But I didn’t take it 100% because I sensed he wanted to get rid of me ;P Honestly, I partly take blame I was hovering and annoying him with all my questions.
From my Googling around. It really depends how the processors communicate and share resources. That all depends on the manufacturer’s design. There are different testing and results from the two major manufactures Intel and AMD. I won’t list my findings but it is really interesting if one wants to snoop around.
Please bear in mind that whatever you read is subjected to being unintentionally wrong because they are my understandings so if I am wrong feel free to correct me.
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