Xeon 'Nocona'

[Asus]

Intel's Xeon 'Nocona' 3.4GHz
vs
AMD's Opteron 'Hammer' 150 2.4Ghz
Link

What may be even more impressive is that with so much going against it, AMD’s fastest Opteron 250 processors still not only manage to fend off the Xeon, but in some benchmarks, still can crush the latest and greatest from Intel with ease. While Intel may be the choice for content creation types, the Opteron still wallops the Xeon in terms of memory bandwidth/latency, number crunching, webserver performance, and media encoding. In all honestly, the Opteron system felt much smoother during our testing in comparison to the new Xeons, which we would tend to attribute to the Opteron’s on-die memory controller feature. If pure performance was your main goal of buying a new dual processor system, the Opteron 250 would still be our processor choice.

 

[SidewinderX]

thx for the link.


I've alkways sorta liked intel for workstation stuff.... so I'm gonna say... "wait until ddr2 matures a little bit" Then I say that the new xeons will see a nice boost.