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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. Re:Memory-bandwidth? by Zathrus · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I know about Hypertransport, but it doesn't make a damned bit of difference. You're still limited by the controller speed and the memory speed, both of which are considerably lower in Opteron than P4/Xeon.

    The fastest that the Opteron can read memory is 333 MHz. Period. End of story. Yeah, it reads 2x64, but it does so 333 million times per second.

    The Xeon can read 2x64 533 million times per second.

    Figured out yet why the Xeon has more bandwidth? I still haven't been able to read the Tom's Hardware review (I'm getting errors from the site - and, no, I'm not referring through /. or anyone else) but I'm going to bet that the Xeon system is outfitted with RDRAM - probably 1066 variety, which runs at 533 MHz. Which coincidentily explains the bandwidth numbers.

  2. Yessir, Opteron is Linux/Unix optimized. by nortcele · · Score: 0, Redundant
    most of the workstation tests were Windows.
    I knew it, Opteron is the silver bullet Linux needed to get on the desktop. It is the future processor for Apple machines. It is the first processor that is self aware....

    Sorry. My blood was pumping.