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Anandtech is reporting some rather striking benchmark results comparing the Athlon 64 3500 to Intel's Xeon 3.6 MHz with 64 bit extensions.

64 Bit SUSE Linux was used along with an array of Linux benchmarks.

http://www.anandtech.com/linux/showdoc.aspx?i=2158

Linux and EM64T; Intel's 64-bit Suggestion


In summary:

"Without a doubt, the 3.6GHz Xeon trounces over the Athlon 64 in math-intensive benchmarks. Intel came ahead in every severe benchmark that we could throw at it,"

Can 't wait for the AMD FB spinmeisters to twist this one into a pretzel.

Maybe Dell, IBM, HP, etc. had a good reason to launch all those Xeon64 servers and workstations last week.