On Thu, 8 Dec 2011, Robar Philip wrote:
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
This is an interesting article but the "benchmarks" are for uber-expensive database systems where the underlying basis for the performance might not be the CPUs at all.
For reference, it is possible to purchase a worthy four socket Opteron 6200 system for 100X less than the systems mentioned in that article.
If you are planning to spend almost $900K for a system, then perhaps Opteron and even Xeon might not be the best choice.
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