  | | | Opinions AMD64 vs EM64T vs Itanium II | Opinions AMD64 vs EM64T vs Itanium II 2006-08-26 - By Kostas Georgiou
Back On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 08:43:49PM -0400, Brian Long wrote:
> Some of our engineering folks use software that costs hundreds of > thousands of dollars per head per year to lease and they always want the > latest and greatest 2 socket system. Considering the numbers on > http://www.spec.org from Xeon 5160 vs. Opteron 254, we have to evaluate > the Xeons. :)
We are in the same situation here, it's hard to ingore the spec numbers even if when you don't trust them. I don't have any woodcrest machines yet but early reports from other people tell us that for *our* workloads the woodcrest performance isn't as good as the spec numbers lead you to believe and you see some performance loss (because of the FSB I guess) when you run multiple jobs. It *is* faster than the Opteron though for our workload.
Kostas Georgiou
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