[K12OSN] Just about ready to make a purchase

[Robert Arkiletian]

On 5/9/07, Les Mikesell <les at futuresource.com> wrote:
> James P. Kinney III wrote:
>
> > Opterons kick some serious bits when it comes to RAM access. During
> > testing prior to the APS installation, I determined that a single chip
> > dual core 2.6 GHz Opteron could perform about 30% faster than the same
> > setup with a dual core 2.8 GHz Xeon.
>
> How long ago was that?  The intel core2 and quad core cpus have
> leapfrogged AMDs in recent benchmarks.
>

Yes that's true for single dual core cpu's. But when you scale up to 8
cores I don't know if I have seen any multitasking benchmarks for that
situation. It's annoying that most benchmarks are for games.

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