On Sat, Mar 05, 2016 at 01:30:13PM +0000, Gordan Bobic wrote: > On 05/03/16 13:11, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > >On Sat, Mar 05, 2016 at 12:39:02PM +0000, Gordan Bobic wrote: > >>Just out of interest, what is better about the AMD Seattle CPU > >>compared to the X-Gene on the Gigabyte board? > > > >A57 cores. Memory bandwidth is slightly faster too. > > I cannot claim to have investigated the differences between A57 and > X-Gene in great detail but from the quick overview table here: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_ARMv8-A_cores > it looks like if anything the X-Gene is likely to be faster given it > has a L3 on-chip cache which A57 doesn't seem to. L3 cache is a function of the SoC, not the cores. The Seattle also has 8 MB L3 cache. I need to stop talking now because I'm unable to discuss the relative or even absolute performance of particular SoCs as a condition of NDAs. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 100 libraries supported. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW