>FROM: MikeMD
>DATE: Sep. 10, 2006 1:15 am gmt
>SUBJECT: HP xw9400 Workstation: AMD Opteron vs. Intel Core 2 Extreme
>This is a pretty bad review which implies that a single dual core Intel chip can beat 2 dual >core AMD Opteron chips. It is obvious that those extra cores in the AMD machine aren't >even being used by most of the applications in this test.
>You could have stuck 4 chips ( 8 cores ) and the result would have been the same because >it's the AMD system running with one arm tied behind its back, not the Intel one.
>looks like Cinebench uses all 4 cores, so you see how much faster AMD system is in that >case.
>A professional review should not imply such things and for comparison should have also used >a single x2 Opteron in this test. Core2duo may be faster than Opteron overall, but there is >absolutely no way 2 cores will come even close to 4 cores if the application in question >uses all cores available.