Re: Question on Opteron performance

Stephen Robert Norris wrote:

> 
> Is this true? Did they really double the size of the memory bus, or is
> it a case of 4 CPUs fighting for the same memory bandwidth that 2 had
> before?
> 
Opertons have built in memory controllers so they scale better than 
intel chips. See http://www.anandtech.com/IT/showdoc.html?i=1982