Dual core Opteron has 4X price/performance advantage over Xeon DC

Opteron 265 price has been slashed to $307, and Opteron 270 price has been cut to $441. INTEL's Paxville 2.8GHZ is selling at about $1200.

However, Opteron 265 is much much faster than Paxville. In Apache Benchmark, with 50,000 users, Opteron 265 handles 1510 requests/second, Paxville 2.8GHZ does 1199 requests/second.

Price/Performance for INTEL Xeon Paxville: 1199/$1200

Price/Performance for Opteron 265: 1510/$307

Opteron 265 has 4X price/performance advantage over dual core Xeon.