Xeon spanked by Opteron again; how will Itanium2 fare ?
 

Anandtech's review pretty much hammers the coffin shut on Xeons, it looks to
me.

I am curious about the relative price of the Opteron vs Xeon systems.
Pricewatch has the Xeon at $300 while the Opteron 248 is $1000. What is an
average total system cost for one vs the other, and what about
support/reliability issues? No mention of these in the article.

rms

rms wrote:

Anandtech's review pretty much hammers the coffin shut on Xeons, it looks to
me.

I am curious about the relative price of the Opteron vs Xeon systems.
Pricewatch has the Xeon at $300 while the Opteron 248 is $1000. What is an
average total system cost for one vs the other, and what about
support/reliability issues? No mention of these in the article.

rms



$300 will get you a 2.8 GHz Xeon with 512 KB L2 cache
and no L3 and even worse performance than the ones used
in the AnandTech benchmarks: basically the same processor
with 2 MB of L3 cache tacked on, plus another $3000 tacked
onto the price.

Performance-wise, the best Opty to compare against your $300
Xeon is probably the Opty 240 ($191).


There is also the 3.2 GHz Xeon with 512 KB L2 & 1 MB L3 for $950.
Dualies built around that processor seem to split the
benchmarks against the Opty 246 (2 GHz, 1 MB L2).

There are many other Opty vs Xeon benchmarks out there.
I like this one: http://www.aceshardware.com/read.jsp?id=60000275



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On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 18:49:35 GMT, "rms" wrote:

Anandtech's review pretty much hammers the coffin shut on Xeons, it looks to
me.

I am curious about the relative price of the Opteron vs Xeon systems.
Pricewatch has the Xeon at $300 while the Opteron 248 is $1000. What is an
average total system cost for one vs the other, and what about
support/reliability issues? No mention of these in the article.

I bet the Xeon price you saw was for a low-end Prestonia or perhaps an ancient
Foster DP processor.

Now go look for the top of the line Gallatin MP with at least the 2MB cache...

/daytripper (hint: it's a *lot* more money)