Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 23 Feb 2003 17:06:29 -0800 (PST) | From | dean gaudet <> | Subject | Re: Minutes from Feb 21 LSE Call |
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On Sun, 23 Feb 2003, David Mosberger wrote:
> >>>>> On Sun, 23 Feb 2003 14:48:48 -0800 (PST), David Lang <david.lang@digitalinsight.com> said: > > David.L> I would call a 15% lead over the ia64 pretty substantial. > > Huh? Did you misread my mail? > > 2 GHz Xeon: 701 SPECint > 1 GHz Itanium 2: 810 SPECint > > That is, Itanium 2 is 15% faster.
according to pricewatch i could buy ten 2GHz Xeons for about the cost of one Itanium 2 900MHz.
that's not even considering the cost of the motherboards i'd need to plug those into.
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