I would like to see that as well, I find it impossible to believe without proof...and I love the power platform just not because it's 4x as fast (at least) per core as x86 for TSM because I don't think it is. :-)
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Gregor van den Boogaart < gregor.booga...@rz.uni-augsburg.de> wrote: > @Howard Coles: > > For every 1 proc or core > > of Power you would need 4 or more of x86 (even at their best level). I > > have seen the numbers from Intel comparing Newer x86 processors to > > Power6 and they are just below the Power 6 (using 2x's the number of > > cores). > Do you have a reference, link, pdf, ... for this? > > > The problem is, You can get Power7 cheaper than Power6, and get > > twice the performance. > And for that? > > Thanks! > > Gregor van den Boogaart >