Re: UltraSPARC versus AMD

Looked on AMD's website. 132 for 4x875 on Windows, 126 on Linux.
(Probably Intel compiler on Windows, gcc on Linux.) That gets AMD into
the $100K 16+ processor Sun system area in terms of performance. Of
course, Sun still has a crapload of other uptime/reliability features
built-in to their systems.

William Yu wrote:
> The numbers don't have the latest dual core Opterons yet. (Don't see
> them on spec.org yet either.) My random guess right now, 4x2 system
> would probably be about 140 SpecINT_rate. It's looking like it's faster
> than have a DC Opteron w/ 1 memory bank versus Dual Opteron w/ 2 memory
> bank because the interconnect between cores inside a DC CPU is so much
> faster than the HT motherboard connect.