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>>>>> On Sun, 23 Feb 2003 17:06:29 -0800 (PST), dean gaudet <dean-list-linux-kernel@arctic.org> said:

  Dean> 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.

  Dean> according to pricewatch i could buy ten 2GHz Xeons for about
  Dean> the cost of one Itanium 2 900MHz.

Not if you want comparable cache-sizes [1]:

 Intel Xeon MP, 2MB L3 cache:		$3692

 Itanium 2, 1 GHZ, 3MB L3 cache:	$4226
 Itanium 2, 1 GHZ, 1.5MB L3 cache:	$2247
 Itanium 2, 900 MHZ, 1.5MB L3 cache:	$1338

Intel basically prices things by the cache size.

	--david

[1]: http://www.intel.com/intel/finance/pricelist/
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