Workstation for VASP: AMD or Intel?
Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2012 3:51 pm
Hi,
we would like to buy a workstation for running VASP calculations.
For the same price we can get:
1) 2 x 6 core Xeon 5690 Westmere 3.47 GHz, which gives 24 cores, Hyperhreading enabled
2) 2 x 16 core AMD Interlagos/Bulldozer 2.1 GHz
RAM, HD, etc. is comparable for both options.
Do you have any experience with the new AMD CPUs? Should we go for higher freq, less cores, or low freq, more cores?
Thanks a lot for your input
we would like to buy a workstation for running VASP calculations.
For the same price we can get:
1) 2 x 6 core Xeon 5690 Westmere 3.47 GHz, which gives 24 cores, Hyperhreading enabled
2) 2 x 16 core AMD Interlagos/Bulldozer 2.1 GHz
RAM, HD, etc. is comparable for both options.
Do you have any experience with the new AMD CPUs? Should we go for higher freq, less cores, or low freq, more cores?
Thanks a lot for your input