Tracy R Reed wrote: > James G. Sack (jim) wrote: >>> Anyone willing to speculate on whether AMD is likely to climb back, and >>> if so when? > > Climb back? From/to where?
Well, I was remembering noises made back around July, such as http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/07/14/core2_duo_knocks_out_athlon_64/ I _do_ recall seeing one or two rejoinders (somewhere) that the difference was not so dramatic in real application space, but I have also seen other references supporting tom's general conclusions. The lower power requirements (under most conditions, supposedly) are a second star for intel. > > FWIW I really like my AMD64 X2 processors. I have one at home and on my > recommendation we have purchased a whole lot of them at work and they > are working out very nicely. We also have Opterons which are very nice > also. Higher memory performance. > > I recently got my Xen/AoE SAN cluster system into production. A single > core of our quad-core (two dual-core chips) Opteron system is now > serving all of the HTTP requests of our entire website. This job used to > be performed by 4 3Ghz P4's and they were nearly overwhelmed. Pretty > impressive. All-in-all, I'm sure I wouldn't mind having X2's either! Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
