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Elmer, One other thing though is the Itanium2 score was an old one. The latest I2 score is 600 also.

The Xeon MP also has faster submissions. A 2.0GHz system from HP gets 476 on the SAP benchmark, 44% better than the comparison used by the Heise article. Sheesh, couldn't they have taken 5 minutes and looked at the SAP benchmark, rather than copy-pasting AMD's PR?

Meanwhile, as you say, Itanium 2 1.0GHz equals Opteron 1.6GHz using 64-bit mode. 32-bit Opteron won't score as high, and I doubt a lot of 64-bit software will be available for Opteron at launch (though I'm sure AMD will benchmark plenty of beta software to score well in benchmarks). By the time Opteron launches in Q2, Intel will have Madison, clocking 50% higher and with double the cache. Opteron's measly 25% clock advantage, even if AMD manages to do it, won't be able to compare.

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