Favorite Files

No favorite files added yet

Recent Posts

1. Comment - AMD Clinches Quad-Core Price/Performance Lead After First SPEC Results

   (Sep 13, 2007 - 5:54 AM)

   I don't really agree with the way performance/price is measure. Based on your statement
   
   "At $1,019, AMD's Opteron 8350 sells per unit for less than half of Intel's price for the Xeon MP X7350 when sold in quantity: $2,301. So even though the X7350 is almost a 30% better performer at integer tasks, your company's dollar buys you almost twice as much processor efficiency with an 8350 than an X7350, as denoted by our index scores: 28.18 for the Opteron versus 14.52 for the Xeon MP."
   
   I don't think this is entirely correct as CPU price only plays 10-20 percent on the price of the server. Another words assuming a typical server cost ~40k, paying 1k extra per CPU is only (1k x4) 10% increase in cost price whereas the user obtain a ~20-30% improvement. Since the change of CPU will not incured additional cost.