Xeon vs. Opteron Performance Benchmarks

Xeon vs. Opteron Performance Benchmarks - QuickSand writes "Anand got his hands on some of Intel and AMD's enterprise processors including 4MB L3 Xeons, and put them to the test. Results were a little varied as 4-way Opteron systems seemed to fare the best, although dual Xeon configurations almost always beat dual Opterons. The exact benchmarks are here." slashdot.org I haven't followed hardware in a while, but it seems to me from reading AnandTech's article, that AMD Opteron's bus speed and performance, especially considering the clockspeed, smokes Intel's Xeon.