On Dec 7, 2011, at 9:24 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > The desktop Bulldozer CPU performance (AMD FX-8150) seems to be rather > lacking, and in fact I see that Intel has posted formal SPEC results for this > CPU in order to rub AMD's nose in it. > > The Opteron 6200 performance seems quite competitive for the price. > I am hoping to purchase such a system and run the Illumos kernel on it.
ars technica: "AMD’s Bulldozer server benchmarks are here, and they're a catastrophe” http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2011/11/bulldozer-server-benchmarks-are-here-and-theyre-a-catastrophe.ars/2 Phil ------------------------------------------- illumos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175430-2e6923be Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175430&id_secret=21175430-6a77cda4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com