Opteron Humiliates Xeon Paxville

FormFactorFormFactor At the core of forgotten
edited October 2005 in Science & Tech
GamePC has a comparison of AMD's Opteron versus Intel's new Xeon Paxville CPU.

The comparison details how Intel's Xeon dual core Paxville is severly outshined by AMD's Opteron. The slowest Opteron outperforms the fastest Xeon Paxville, and the fastest Opteron uses less power than the Xeon Paxville.

The Register is running an article with details as well.
Unfortunately, even a solid platform can’t help Intel’s performance numbers, as their new dual-core chips (while powerful in their own right) simply are bested across the board by AMD’s dual-core Opteron processors. Even worse, the Opterons typically perform much better while running at slower clock speeds and only having half the amount of on-die L2 cache to utilize. AMD’s chips also consume far less power and run quite a bit cooler, giving AMD an edge on nearly all fronts. AMD’s top of the line dual-core Opterons are quite a bit more expensive compared to the top of the line 2.8 GHz Dual Core Xeon (which will sell for ~$1,000 per CPU), putting it roughly on par with AMD’s Opteron 270 (2.0 GHz) processor. Even comparing the Opteron 270 to the Paxville Xeon 2.8 GHz, we still would opt for an AMD based solution.
A great submission by Leonardo.

Source: GamePC

Comments

  • Sledgehammer70Sledgehammer70 California Icrontian
    edited October 2005
    wow I knew The new Dual Xeons were going to tank, but that is a huge difference in numbers, and the power it consumes is wow!!!!!

    What happened to intels new moto Price per watt! I know they said that about their new chips but this Xeon will most likely only see the shelves and not a Mobo!
  • muddocktormuddocktor
    edited October 2005
    Hey, one thing the Paxville smokes the Opty's in though is power consumption. They can also double as room heaters, which will be nice for the winter. ;D;D;D

    Can you imagine what the electric meter would look like, running a rack or 2 of those. :D
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited October 2005
    Sledgehammer70 wrote:
    What happened to intels new moto Price per watt! I know they said that about their new chips but this Xeon will most likely only see the shelves and not a Mobo!

    This is not the CPU you are thinking of. This is based off the smithfield core and not the Pentium-M core. Those wont be out for awhile.
  • lemonlimelemonlime Canada Member
    edited October 2005
    Yikes, Intel's netburst architecture simply cannot compete. I'm really looking forward to seeing intels next processor generation. The PM architecture is where it's at.
  • CyrixInsteadCyrixInstead Stoke-on-Trent, England Icrontian
    edited October 2005
    Erm, is it me or is the site now displaying a pictures of a man's arse being stretched to f**** at the top of the page, with the review lower down. Are they stealing bandwidth or something????

    ~Cyrix
  • airbornflghtairbornflght Houston, TX Icrontian
    edited October 2005
    I knew the opertons would smoke intels excuse of a processor anyday. their new marketing campaign should be : "you'll never be cold, you [
  • ShortyShorty Manchester, UK Icrontian
    edited October 2005
    I've reported it in to the guys over at GamePC and have removed the link until it's fixed :)
  • airbornflghtairbornflght Houston, TX Icrontian
    edited October 2005
    it looks like gamepc took their servers off line. I cant even find it. that sucks. i had my webserver defaced once, but that was when i had a static ip. cant have a webserver anymore thanks to cox taking it away without my knowledge and then saying it'd cost $15 a month for "business cable" which is the same thing with a static ip..i hate cox.
  • LeonardoLeonardo Wake up and smell the glaciers Eagle River, Alaska Icrontian
    edited October 2005
    Until GamePC is in order again, here's a summary of the GamePC article posted by the ever irreverant Register.
    Intel server chip chief Pat Gelsinger. Behind him, Paxville is caught during a critical phase of its boot sequence
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  • airbornflghtairbornflght Houston, TX Icrontian
    edited October 2005
    ahhh ahahahhahahahah hahhah shahah hahah i think that may be an understatment.
  • JengoJengo Pasco, WA | USA
    edited October 2005
    dude, that was the most disgusting thing i have ever seen..

    YUCK!
  • ShortyShorty Manchester, UK Icrontian
    edited October 2005
    Link removed from airborneflights post :shakehead
  • tmh88tmh88 Pittsburgh / Athens, OH
    edited October 2005
    i read somewhere that you need at LEAST a 400 watt psu if your going to use even the lowest xeon paxville.
  • GrayFoxGrayFox /dev/urandom Member
    edited October 2005
    tmh88 wrote:
    i read somewhere that you need at LEAST a 400 watt psu if your going to use even the lowest xeon paxville.
    A 400W brand name just for the cpu alone.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited October 2005
    I've been sleeping on the job. Sorry.

    AAAAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHA. ****ing newbs. ;D
  • tmh88tmh88 Pittsburgh / Athens, OH
    edited October 2005
    ok im sorry 2 of them....

    "Even when idling, two dual-core Xeons consume nearly 400W of power at any given time, which is amazingly high, even by Intel's standards"

    taken directly from slashdot news (thankyou grayfox for the site) in this article http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/05/10/22/0714240.shtml?tid=118&tid=137
  • LeonardoLeonardo Wake up and smell the glaciers Eagle River, Alaska Icrontian
    edited October 2005
    The GamePC article is up again.
  • airbornflghtairbornflght Houston, TX Icrontian
    edited October 2005
    Shorty wrote:
    Link removed from airborneflights post

    mehh...shorty, you could have at least cleaned up my typos that im to lazy to fix. i gave 'em fair warning about the link. oh well, your site, not mine.

    you did hurt my feelings though, you didnt even spell my name right...:bawling:
  • airbornflghtairbornflght Houston, TX Icrontian
    edited October 2005
    Thrax wrote:
    I've been sleeping on the job. Sorry.

    AAAAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHA. ****ing newbs.

    ?????
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