AMD strictly moderated (AMD)

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Elmer Phud:

And many Opteron 2 socket systems wipe the floor with QX6700 Kentsfield in SPECfp_rate2000:

http://www.spec.org/cpu2000/results/res2006q4/cpu2000-20061030-07857.html
http://www.spec.org/cpu2000/results/res2006q4/cpu2000-20061016-07641.html

92.1 (Opteron 2220 SE) to 65.0 (QX6700). The slowest socket F Opteron (2210) pair is 10% faster than the fastest Kentsfield, 71.4 versus 65.0 even though they have less than 68% of the clock.

http://www.spec.org/osg/cpu2000/results/res2006q3/cpu2000-20060721-06621.html

A pair of 1.86GHz@1066FSB Woodcrest 5120s is as fast.

http://www.spec.org/osg/cpu2000/results/res2006q3/cpu2000-20060626-06261.html

I call a Kentsfield QX6700 getting beaten by a mere pair of Opteron 2210s as getting trampled. A $1300 CPU getting trounced by 2 2210s, MB and 4x1GB Reg DDR2 PC2-3200 DIMMs costing less than $1200. That FSB rears its ugly head again.

Wonder what SPEC CPU 2006 will show?

Pete