@Nicholas Blachford -
Benchmarks via GCC issues;
- One shouldn’t generalise X86 issues i.e. Pentium 4’s related issues may not be applicable to the K7 and K8 families e.g. floating point instructions (non-SSE/3DNow) and GCC.
- Regarding Opteron only for server staements...
The recently released AMD Opteron 1xx series and nVidia nForce3 are being targeted for workstation markets not just for the server markets.
- Regarding "Pentium M" embedded markets; According to
http://www.intel.com/design/intarch/prodbref/25269601.pdf1.1Ghz @ 12 Watts, 1.6Ghz @24.5 Watts.
