That's not quite how I read it. Anandtech raises valid concerns about the power consumption of power8, but other than that they are quite supportive and show po

That's not quite how I read it. Anandtech raises valid concerns about the power consumption of power8, but other than that they are quite supportive and show power8 beating these xeons in benchmarks [1]: > Ultimately, the POWER8 is able to offer slightly higher raw performance than the Intel CPUs, however it just won't be able to do so at the same performance/watt. Meanwhile the reasonable pricing of the POWER8 chips should result in third party servers that are strongly competitive with the Xeon on a performance-per-dollar basis. I think the comparison is fair, however I also have to say that repeating all the benchmarks in the rest of the article with power8 as well, would have been better. It seems to me a bit like the power8 comparison was an afterthought. [1] http://anandtech.com/show/9193/the-xeon-e78800-v3-review/7 http://anandtech.com/show/9193/the-xeon-e78800-v3-review/7