Tech Link (Processor): Knockout: Intel’s Woodcrest 3.0 GHz outclasses AMD’s Opteron

If you need a daily fill of your Intel® Core™ shot, then this might tide you over while you are still hunting for those elusive Conroe and Merom benchies. This is just a taste of what's to come, and this uA will truly shine once the product becomes mainstream.

Summary
In February 2006, Intel boasted that its upcoming processors with core architecture would be 20% faster than competitive products from its rival AMD. What seemed at the time to be a somewhat presumptuous claim has turned out to be true. Our benchmarking tests confirmed that the Xeon Woodcrest processor for servers and workstations outclasses by far the rest of the x86 architectures – including AMD’s Opteron CPUs or the new Xeon 5070 Dempsey with NetBurst architecture.

Source:TecChannel