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AMD benchmarks Opteron against Itanium, Xeons, PIIIs

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edited November 2003 in Science & Tech
SPECint
Itanium 2 1.5GHz 1322.0
Opteron 246 1317.0
Xeon 3.06GHz 1MB L3 1294.0 <- P4 EE twin
Pentium 4 3.2GHz 800 FSB 1261.0
Opteron 244 1170.0
Xeon 3.06GHz 1138

SPECfp
Itanium 2 1.5GHz 2119
Opteron 246 1293
P4 3.2GHz 800 FSB 1285
Opteron 244 1219
Xeon 3.06GHz 1MB L3 1186 <-P4 EE Twin
Xeon 3.06GHz 1103

Source: [link=http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=12521]The Inquirer[/link]

Comments

  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    One thing this bench doesn't show is the reality that you need basically custom software for Itanium 2....
  • drasnordrasnor Starship Operator Hawthorne, CA Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    That and the Itanium2 costs a multiple of its peformance ratio more.

    -drasnor :fold:
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    primesuspect had this to say
    One thing this bench doesn't show is the reality that you need basically custom software for Itanium 2....

    And that the custom programs are intensely difficult to write, as the programmer must write the functions in the proper order. Itanium's VLIW architecture stops it from reorganizing code on the fly. Gimpy.
  • danball1976danball1976 Wichita Falls, TX
    edited November 2003
    Why did Intel design such a backwards CPU?
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