AnandTech compares two systems: an AMD Socket F Opteron and another featuring the Intel Woodcrest.
"Seeing as we believe that most servers do not operate at CPU utilizations levels which approach saturation, Socket-F has done very well. It is able to keep up to Woodcrest for the first 3/5 of the Load Points and with less power. Many companies will add more servers/CPUs/etc. once they are running at over 60% CPU utilization, so we do feel that the first three Load Points are the most meaningful. Yes, Woodcrest is faster, but the FB-DIMMs do serve to hinder performance and performance/Watt in our testing." [AMD Socket-F Opteron vs. Intel Woodcrest - AnandTech]
Another case of faster does not really mean better. :)
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