Author: Jeremiah Penery
Date: 21:20:00 11/09/02
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On November 09, 2002 at 18:44:02, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >On November 09, 2002 at 15:45:10, Aaron Gordon wrote: > >Though their math is dead wrong indeed, also their statement is >a joke. Saying for example that the I3 is worse than the Opteron. > >Looks like a big joke statement to me. Those processors aren't >even in the same league competing, also parallel performance >of the I3 will completely blow away that opteron on the left >and right of course. I suppose that is why Cray is building an Opteron machine and not an Itanium machine... >Itanium2 is around $8000 a cpu (you can get it here and there for $7300 now >for 1 Ghz, and the 900Mhz version a lot cheaper). > >I would be pretty amazed if Opteron is near that price class where the >Itanium3 will be for sure. Since when is price directly proportional to performance?
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