AMD Beats Intel in Power-Efficiency Study

Ted Samson writes "AMD Opteron servers proved up to 15.2 percent more energy-efficient than those running Intel Xeon in a server-power-efficiency test performed by Neal Nelson and Associates, InfoWorld reports. That translates to annual electricity savings between $20.29 per server and $36.04 per server, depending on the workload, the study concluded. The benchmark tests were conducted on similarly configured 3GHz systems running Novell SUSE Linux, Apache2, and MySQL."

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Re:energy savings = dollars per what? Month? Year?

[wfberg]

That translates to annual electricity savings between $20.29 per server and $36.04 per server

Over what time period? Or are they using the prime interest rate to figure out what the one-time savings are? :)

They're talking about those very special monthly annual savings..