>Actually, that was from an article from this last month that compared
>the dual core intel to the amd. for every dollar spent on the intel,
>you got about half the performance of the amd. Not bigotry. fact.
>
>But don't believe me or the other people who've seen the difference. Go
>buy the Intel box. No skin off my back.
>
>
I've been doing plenty of performance evaluation on a parallel application
we're developing here : on Dual Core Opterons, P4, P4D. I can say that
the Opterons open up a can of wupass on the Intel processors. Almost 2x
the performance on our application vs. what the SpecCPU numbers would
suggest.