Quote Originally Posted by kl0012 View Post
I am little surprised to hear such things from a marketing guy.
First, a cpu price difference is never proportional to actual performance difference even in the same line of cpus. But you probably know it even better then me.
Second, your performance/price equation is partially useful for home PC user but in busines/server space it is completely BS. Even if X5570 only 20% faster then 2435 do you really think that %20 more work which potentially can be done in, lets say, two years, costs only $250 diff between cpus?
No need to get angry or combative. I think it's cool that JF posts in this forum. It's always nice to get someone from inside AMD to post. I wish more executives would do that. As far as the price/performance ratio, obviously you have to take into account price vs performance. If performance is more important, then obviously Nehalem will be a better option. But if it isn't, Opteron presents a very compelling argument. Not every server runs at 100% capacity all the time. Most servers are at like 30% most of the time. If that were the case, Nehalem doesn't present much value beyond Opteron.