"the 2.8GHz Opteron 2220 is FASTER, clock for clock, than the 3GHz Xeon 5160 in SPECint2006-rate, and just 10% slower, clock for clock, than the Xeon in SPECint2006-base"
What the heck your "clock for clock" supposed to mean? Aha, now we are stretching the reality by prorating systems by clock speeds, to please yourself. Tell me please now that performance per watt is really important too, and companies cannot afford to pay for extra 10-20 Watts of electricity per workstation when a multi-million project depends on speed of compile turnarounds...
Opteron F 2222 is 3GHz, like its Athlon64 FX-74 brother & otherwise identical to the 2220. If it's not out yet, it will be soon.
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BTW, for the sake of accuracy, Dell 690 is a Workstation, not a server, as your cited tabloid refers to it. So, you better consider more appropriate metrics than spec_rate.
Your insistence that workstations are single-threaded is, once again, ridiculous and unsubstantiated (but not for lack of trying.)
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