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Subject: Re: CPU article by the inquirer : Itanium and Opteron contrasted

Author: Aaron Gordon

Date: 06:34:13 11/11/02

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Vincent.. you said:
>>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.

How do you figure? The Opteron has hypertransport. It gets the full bandwidth
per CPU, not shared like most other systems. This means in a Quad Opteron EACH
cpu gets 3.2gb/s w/ PC3200 ram. 3.2gb/s * 4 = 12.8gb/s

Also you won't need to rob Fort Knox to buy one, either. :)



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