Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[HailMary]

Interesting article. I liked this part:

"With real-world applications we have tested, the uglier the code, the bigger the advantage is for Opteron over Xeon."

I have had similar findings. It is a shame many of the public benchmarks out there don't really tell you which chip is best for your needs. The good thing is OEMs will give workstation and server samples to large companies on a trial basis to determine this. Opteron is winning a lot of prestige in these situations.