The IBM POWER8 Review: Challenging the Intel Xeon

Re:The IBM POWER8 Review: Challenging the Intel Xeon by ajross on Friday November 06, 2015 @11:06AM (#10520153)

This is true, but honestly no one is really interested in playing with the POWER ISA, which for most purposes is Just Another 90's RISC Box. The thing drawing clicks here is the question of whether or not the specific POWER8 architecture can beat contemporary Intel (which means Haswell right now, as Broadwell doesn't have a high performance Xeon variant) architecture in some regimes. And... it kinda doesn't.

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Re:The IBM POWER8 Review: Challenging the Intel Xeon by kpil on Saturday November 07, 2015 @05:10AM (#10524341)

I think that apple figured out a long time ago that the price performance would never be as good, and that pure performance would be on par - at best.

Since then it has all been about making it look good for enterprise goons. Consolidating and vertical scaling and all that.

And poor buggers that end up with high cpu steal and poor performance because a new box is just unimaginably expensive when you have filled the existing system.

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