I'm not a big believer in the raw clock speed of CPUs, especially after watching our 2GHz Opterons clobber our 3GHz non-Woodcrest Xeons, but in this case I'm gonna give Sun the benefit of the doubt and guess that their clock speed is probably "high quality," just like AMD's.Check it out over here.
CoolThreads' 8 cores x 1.0GHz = 8GHz. Olde Faithful's 4 cores x 2.0GHz = 8GHz. My hypothesis is that both are going to deliver roughly equivalent performance when it comes to the $/CPU portion of the equation. I predict a tie under load (which is what we care about most), but that when not loaded, Olde Faithful will serve photos faster.
32-core Sun server vs 4-core AMD based server
Posted on Friday, August 18 2006 @ 14:13 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck