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LINPACK: Intel's Nehalem versus AMD Shanghai

The Tech Report: News found this 12/1/2008 on 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 ) ...