Opteron Benchmarked Against Xeon

jbmnuke writes "Tom's Hardware has posted a review of AMD's Opteron v. Intels Xeon." Nothing gets the blood pumping like a whole new generation of CPUs to compare numbers to, right? Update: 04/22 12:35 GMT by H : And there's the official benchmarks as well, with more coming - like Linux Magazine and Newsforge

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For those holding out hope for the Desktop Hammer

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This article implies you are out of luck.

Everything a normal workstation/desktop system does, the 3GHz Xeon does better than Opteron.

Think that is going to change by Sept...? I seriously doubt it. Especially since by then Intel CPUs will be even faster than they are now.

If this is supposed to be server vs. server, anyone wonder why they didn't throw an Itanium2 in the mix? Sure it is more expensive, but with servers, it is generally cheaper to buy something faster and more expensive than to sit around waiting on the server all day.