I wanted to know how good the AMD Bulldozer architecture is for working with FreeBSD, and I haven't seen anything much about it. So I did a "make buildworld -jX" for 9-stable on a few different CPUs. I hooked the same hard disk to various systems to run the tests. All times are in seconds.
In absolute terms the i5-2500 beats the heck out of the others. It appears that there is not enough parallelism in "make buildworld" to keep all the cores busy on the Bulldozer CPU. The FX-8120's Passmark numbers are better than those for the i5-2500, but on the real workload imposed by "make buildworld" this doesn't pan out.
Value for the money figures calculated as 1E6/<best time>/<retail price> (in other words an arbitrary number of work units per unit time per dollar) are:
I was surprised to see that at this time the X4 965 seems to be the best bang for the buck. What do you think?
Code:
-jX 1 2 4 6 8
FX-8120 7136 3953 2422 2006 1964
X4-965 4886 2661 1620 1650 1689
i5-2500 4150 2224 1326 1345 1448
In absolute terms the i5-2500 beats the heck out of the others. It appears that there is not enough parallelism in "make buildworld" to keep all the cores busy on the Bulldozer CPU. The FX-8120's Passmark numbers are better than those for the i5-2500, but on the real workload imposed by "make buildworld" this doesn't pan out.
Value for the money figures calculated as 1E6/<best time>/<retail price> (in other words an arbitrary number of work units per unit time per dollar) are:
Code:
FX-8120 3
i5-2500 3.6
Phenom II X4 965 5.1
I was surprised to see that at this time the X4 965 seems to be the best bang for the buck. What do you think?