Dual Athlons Vs Dual Core

[Athos]

Has anyone seen a review that compares the price and performance of 2 Opterons vs. 1 Dual core Athlon?

 

[imported_michaelpatrick33]

Their around but there are no 265 or 275 in stock yet. Only the 875 (yikes in price). The X2's are nowhere near retail yet either so you are early to ask this. Benchmarks have shown a no performance boost for single thread (obviously) but multi-threaded apps have shown the dualcore to run better than 2 Opterons at equal frequency. In other words the dualcore 875 (2.2) was shown to run closer to 2 separate 2.6 252 Opterons in a lot of tests.

Pricewise it is still to early to tell but the x2 should be within the range (but definitely more expenseive [but better performing] then the Intel) of the Opterons

X2 4400+ is going to retail around 555.00 (2.2Ghrtz per core at 1024K L2 per core) (June or July availibility (works on existing 939 board so save some money)
X2 4800+ is giong to retail around 1000.00 (2.4Ghrtz per core at 1024k L2 per core) June or July availibility (works on existing 939 board so save some money)
275 (2.2ghrtz per core right now) around 1300 (preorder price) late May availibility

 

[Zebo]

I've done it in another thread:

4400 X2- 2.2Ghz 1mb lvl2 two cores = $550
Any Socket 939 board Like DFI LP = $130
1GB LL PC3200 like UTT=$120

Total = $800 AND will be 10% faster than below

Two opteron 248's = $900
ASUS "K8N-DL =$280
1BG ECC/REG PC3200 = $240

Total $1420 and it's slower.

 

[imported_michaelpatrick33]

Originally posted by: Zebo
I've done it in another thread:

4400 X2- 2.2Ghz 1mb lvl2 two cores = $550
Any Socket 939 board Like DFI LP = $130
1GB LL PC3200 like UTT=$120

Total = $800 AND will be 10% faster than below

Two opteron 248's = $900
ASUS "K8N-DL =$280
1BG ECC/REG PC3200 = $240

Total $1420 and it's slower.

Good job Zebo. The only advantage to the Opteron path is two 275 for four cores but unless you are a serious video/photoshop/3d animation person that is a little overkill LOL

 

[Zebo]

Here's a real review I hunted down for ya.

what to watch for:

Opteron 175 versus dual Opteron 248 ? This is a matchup at 2.2GHz between a dual-core Opteron and a pair of single-core Opterons.

Note: they are using a opteron 175 to mimmick an X2 ...the later will be about 10% faster due to better memory config. Even so, the opteron 175 beats a dual CPU opteron setup at same speed dispite only having half the bandwidth!!!! The reason is low latency because the 175's cores are so close to each other being on same die.

http://techreport.com/reviews/2005q2/opteron-x75/index.x?pg=1

 

[Zebo]

X2 = everything killer. Just wait and watch.

I would pay full retail price for one right now and I'm known as somewhat prudent in these forums.

 

[Athos]

Thanks for the info and the link!