Coward: Customers buy performance, not clocks

Anonymous Coward posts, "You are a retard if you buy four 1.6 GHz T2+ chips for $115,695. That's a 28.7 per cent price hike for 14.3 per cent more clocks.."

Perhaps - but customers may purchase more performance.

http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2009-07/sunflash.20090721.2.xml

"Running the latest versions of the Solaris 10 OS and Java Server software backed by Oracle Database 11g, the SPARC Enterprise T5440 server delivered... a 21 percent improvement over the previous 1.4GHz-based SPARC Enterprise score"

21% more performance is being seen for some applications. The 20% increase in memory bandwidth may have done more for the performance of the overall system than the CPU bump of 14%.

It is interesting how much of a boost Sun and TI got out of the T2 and T2+ CPU's with such a small boost in clock rate.