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Dual Socket Nehalem Xeon 5570s Destroy Quad Socket AMD Shanghai 8384s in Virtualization Benchmarks at Anandtech:

....the newest dual Xeon servers outperform the best quad Opteron platforms when both are running the newest hypervisor from VMware.


http://it.anandtech.com/IT/showdoc.aspx?i=3560

I assume the AMD Fanbois now group Virtualization Performance along with SPECfp_rate2006 and SuperPi as no longer relevant to CPU performance.

I wonder how AMD will now spin their "Value Proposition" charade on server customers?