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MV4T editor preface / comment: WOW! We look forward to selling the new Xeon 55xx processors that are based on the
architecture of the Core i7 - outrageous and nearly unbelievable performance gains appear real, and should lead to
incredible power savings for the same computer performance, as demonstrated in these SAP Enterprise application performance figures!]
Article Excerpt:
"The Xeon 5570 is based on the same architecture as the Core i7. It is a 2.93 GHz quadcore CPU with 4 times a 256 KB L2-cache and one huge shared 8 MB L3.
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The SAP numbers are absolutely astonishing, as
Intel's dual socket is able to outperform quad socket opteron machines.
Based on the scaling of Barcelona, we speculate that a quad Shanghai at 2.7 GHz would obtain the performance of the
Dual Xeon 5570 w/o HT.
The new Xeon 5570 outperforms the "old" 5450 by 119%!!!
These numbers are so high, that we checked and checked again. The database used is the same (SQL Server 2005),..."