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It depends on what you're doing and which Xeon you get. If you're doing number crunching, then it will definitely be worth it. I have some Xeon's with 20MB cach
by michael_h 11y ago
It depends on what you're doing and which Xeon you get. If you're doing number crunching, then it will definitely be worth it. I have some Xeon's with 20MB cache that cut my processing time by ~40%, so they paid for themselves the first time I ran something on them.
- danieldk 11y agoIf you're doing number crunching, then it will definitely be worth it. Depends on the kind of number crunching. If you are doing expensive matrix computations, a high-end GTX CPU or a Tesla stream processor may buy you much more for the same price. Also, if the choice is between cache size and architecture, a new architecture may bring more. E.g. my Core i7 MacBook royally beats some of our Xeon machines with 25MB cache, by virtue of having AVX with 256 bit wide registers for SIMD. Of course, if you can have it all, take it all :).