Quote Originally Posted by savantu View Post
BD does pretty nicely in server workloads like business warehousing and transaction processing. It perform in between the 6 core ( 240mm^2 ) and 10 core ( 513mm^2 ) Westmere based Xeons. Of course, it throws 630mm^2 of die size in the fight, but it performs.

Server workloads, unlike desktop ones, like a lot of cores, even if individually they are relatively weak ( In BD sense, not ARM/Atom sense ). To almost match the 10 core Xeon EX behemoth is quite an achievement in my eyes.
It does perform, but everyone forgets about one thing when talking about servers and that is power consumption. BD fails to keep low power consumption when being utilized.
More power draw = electricity cost + the cost for more cooling.