Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

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What the article doesnt say is from how many concurrent processes the pentium3 starts to win against the opteron.
If it is 1000 processes I would go for the opteron as my workstation since it is not so often I have 1000 processes working at the same time.

From the article you can conlucde that the pentium4 is better with alot of threads but not if it makes a difference in normal usage. I.e with normal nr of threads running.

In my company we evaluated the opteron and it run twice as fast as our pentium4 servers with modelsim. But 50% slower with our backend tools. So the opteron doesnt win allways, but IMO it does win in enough areas with a big margin to get 20% market share in servers. As an AMD investor I would be quite satisfied with 20% (for now)

BTW since we our processor cycles are going mostly for modelsim we are only going to buy opteron servers for now.