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Opteron can beat Power6
Opteron can beat Power6
Posted Mar 6, 2006 18:20 UTC (Mon) by genius (guest, #19981)Parent article: A Report from LinuxForum 2006 (Groklaw)
Power6 has 750 million transistors.
A dual-core Opteron has 233 million transistors. A quad-core can have 466 million. Add a huge cache, and Opteron is hands down the winner!
Check out HyperTransport.org, Sandia's Red Storm Is First Computer to Exceed 1 Terabyte per Second on Important HPCC Benchmark Test
Life is better without Intel, Power6 and Nvidia.
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Opteron can beat Power6
Posted Mar 6, 2006 22:40 UTC (Mon) by Zenith (subscriber, #24899) [Link]
How does this have anything to do with this news item?
Opteron can beat Power6
Posted Mar 7, 2006 2:26 UTC (Tue) by flewellyn (subscriber, #5047) [Link]
"genius" has a long track record of posting trolling, useless, and off-topic comments.
I have no idea why.