Excellent review of AMD x12 6174 from tecchannel.de :) "X5680@3.33Ghz included"

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Please note that the 6174 results are not our top bin, there is another beyond that. We supplied the 6174 because we knew that we could make a compelling argument for value. When a 6174 beats an X5680 it is beating a processor that eats more power and costs 42% more ($1165 vs. $1663).

A lot of value that's lost for applications whose license costs are on a per core basis.

There were a lot of critics that jumped on AMD about MC clock speeds, I am interested in their take on the Beckton clock speeds, especially combined with the TDPs.

As expected, it's a monster for commercial workloads with unprecedented RAS features for x86 and staggering memory capacity.

Has anyone seen any SPEC power numbers yet? Data seems pretty light at this point. Wasn't happy with the infoworld review, who uses big boxes like either of our platforms for MP3 encoding....?

Intel says 2927 for an IBM x3650, haven't seen any numbers from AMD.