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Opteron Benchmarked Against Xeon

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the round-64 dept.

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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  1. it's all well and good.. by rj-eleven · · Score: 5, Insightful

    but it reminds me of a benchmark performed between desktop x86's and a sun machine. Given the different architectures, it really didn't make sense. However, the benchmark was supposed to show price::performance. Is this what Pabst is trying to convey? I don't take much stock in benchmarks anyway, as I would rather get my hands on it and try to break it.

  2. Re:AMD is dead by trezor · · Score: 5, Insightful
    • Considering how P4 3.06Ghz actually runs at 3Ghz and does much better at important tasks such as encoding video, instead of synthetic benchmarks, we therefore conclude AMD is officially dead.

    So you do not believe that Intel got where they got today becuase of competition and pressure? You sincerely believe that Intel wouldn't sit back on their lazy ass and inflate prices, if there were no copmetition?

    Naivity ensues obviosuly.

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  3. Not quite a fair comparison by Hektor_Troy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The dual Xeon has 512 MB RAM.
    The dual Opteron has 2 GB RAM.

    Pretty sloppy, if you ask me.

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  4. Re:AMD is dead by Gossy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Considering how P4 3.06Ghz actually runs at 3Ghz and does much better at .....

    Tell me, why is the fact it actually runs at 3Ghz important?

    MHz is not a useful measure of performance.

    Jesus. No wonder AMD implemented their 'marketing MHz' rating system - the average guy on the street thinks that's how you measure perfomance of CPUs, and even some /. readers seem to as well. Naive of me perhaps to think that /. readers would be more clued up, but hey.

    I'd love to see the MHz rating be completely scrapped from how we rate CPUs in stores. Yes, it's useful to see that an AMD 2000+ is faster than a 1800+, but it's not so great when comparing with Intel chips. The trouble is that since AMDs are better at some things, and Intels better at others, a number of figures would have to be provided to make a fair and useful comparison. Too many numbers though I'm sure might confuse people, so I guess we'll be stuck with the MHz wars for a while yet.

  5. Re:server vs. workstation? by double_u_b · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And more: Opteron needs specifically compiled binaries to show its full power. Not that I think it's a bad thing. But it shows that OpenSource solution will be more easily available for Opterons than comercial specifically compiled and optimised software, thanks gcc. I don't think Intel C++ compiler will support Opteron's new registers.