By the time this PDF deck dropped, AMD K10 / Opteron was out, and that ship had sailed.
By 2004 the only thing Itanium had going for it vs a similarly sized Opteron system was the enormous L3 cache. Real good for SPECfp, I guess.
By 2004 the only thing Itanium had going for it vs a similarly sized Opteron system was the enormous L3 cache. Real good for SPECfp, I guess.