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Sun x4600 smashes 16P HP Superdome

Opteron cleankills dual core Itanium 2 (Montecito)

4P 8 core Opteron, SpecInt_rate2000: 156; 4P 8 core Itanium 2 9050 (cost per chip: $3692) with total 96MB cache (24 MB per CPU) , SpecInt_rate2000: 134. Opteron leads by 16.4%.

Previously, we reported that the 8P Sun x4600 smashes the 16P HP Integrity Superdome with 16 Itanium 2 1.6GHZ.

In terms of floating point performance, Opteron ruins Itanium 2. the SUN x4600 got a SpecFP_2000 score of 3538. A Itanium 2 9050 got 3017. A 2.2GHZ Power 5+ got 3513.

Intel's Woodcrest Xeon 5160 got a SpecFP_2000 score of 3056 -- Opteron is 16% faster than Woodcrest and 17% faster than Montecito.

In SpecFP_rate2000, a 4P Opteron 885 (2.6GHZ) Blade got a score of 182. A 4P Montecito got 186, a statistical tie with Opteron 885. The best score for a Woodcrest server is 85.9. Of course, we know Woodcrest is only for low end 2P market, it's incapable of > 2 SMP. But you can see 2P Xeon 5160 is 47% of 4P Opteron.

http://sharikou.blogspot.com/2006/07/opteron-cleankills-dual-core-itanium-2.html

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