These are processors made for servers right?
Yes....althought it's interesting they were using a 6800Ultra for graphics and running Doom3 and Far cry based things lol.
You say that cause you are an Intel advocate
Says right here:
The Xeon is still be our choice for content creation and artist types, despite the fact that its once dominant stranglehold on our benchmark suite is now cracking, the Xeon is still a dynamite chip for heavy multi-taskers.
Their stranglehold is slipping, and it's only for content creation that they suggest it, then right after that
In terms of raw performance throughout all of our tests, we would give the nod to AMDÂ’s Opteron 252, which gives higher performance levels throughout the majority of our benchmarks, despite running at a lower clock speed and having half the amount of L2 cache.
RAW PERFORMANCE, throughout not a portion of the tests like they said Intel would be good for content creation but throughout the MAJORITY of the benchmarks.
and of course [/quote]At 2.6 GHz, the Opteron 252 is exceedingly fast, and crunched through our benchmarks at surprising speeds. The efficiency of AMDÂ’s processor and memory controller designs cannot be denied. [/quote]
Let us not forget this tidbit
With SSE-3 support added, the Opteron is now on par with the Xeon in terms of processor instruction compatibility. In addition, the lower power consumption and heat production levels were immediately noticeable to us, and really helped cinch the Opteron 252 as the better overall in our minds
So you are mistaken if you got that they said the Intel is 'more reliable'
AMD uses less power, less heat, dominates throughout mosts of the test and overall is the better. They give Intel the medal of multitasking like what's been agreed upon forever now.
They also end it with
If given the choice between the two, the Opteron 252 would be our personal preference,
So when you say
and they actually say the xeon is a more reliable choice..
Thats simply not true as they said nothing of the sort
