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LINPACK: Intel's Nehalem versus AMD Shanghai
LINPACK: Intel's Nehalem versus AMD Shanghai (flag)
www.anandtech.com — A "beta BIOS update" broke compatibility with ESX, so we had to postpone our virtualization testing on our quad CPU AMD 8384 System. So we started an in depth comparison of the 45 nm Opterons, Xeons and Core i7 CPUs. One of our benchmarks, the famous LINPACK (you can read all about it here ) ...

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  • JustJosh JustJosh
    +1

    I kind of figured Intel's parts would out-perform AMD's.

    AMD better shape up or they are going to be left in the dust soon.

    Posted 12/1/2008 respond (flag)
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