Re: UltraSPARC versus AMD

Richard_D_Levine(at)raytheon(dot)com writes:
> I just got done comparing SPECMarks (on spec.org) between Sun's AMD entry
> level servers versus similarly configured UltraSPARCs versus desktop AMD
> based machines. Sun's AMD machines are twice as fast as their UItraSPARCs,
> for approximately the same price. What a hoot.

It's not surprising.

The "interesting" efforts that Sun has been putting into CPUs lately
have gone into the new "Niagara" thing which isn't going into low end
UltraSPARCs.

AMD has gotten a lot of the ex-Digital folk, and ex-Alpha
technologies, and has been able to get that stuff into lower priced
systems, from whence is what we can see...
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