David Kanter (dkanter.delete@this.realworldtech.com) on August 13, 2014 11:29 am wrote:
> At Hot Chips, I talked to a few customers that indicated X-Gene systems
> are only sold under NDA's that prohibit benchmark publication.
>
> I haven't confirmed this with the company yet, but if so...it certainly
> doesn't sound like the behavior of a confident competitor.
>
> David

Is it not benchmarked or benchmarks are under NDA?

Some hours ago Applied Micro representative started giving some few estimations and performance numbers: about a 25 percent performance advantage over its predecessor on the ApacheBench Web serving test, about 750 million transactions per second on the Memcached test within a power envelope of around 30 kilowatts...

applied micro plots x gene arm server future

Roughly speaking, Singh says that for these kinds of bandwidth-intensive and cache-intensive workloads, the X-Gene1 can deliver the performance of an “Ivy Bridge” or “Haswell” Xeon E5, and that X-Gene2 will deliver even more performance in a much lower power envelope, particularly for latency-sensitive clustered applications. Many people will find this hard to believe, but eventually real-world customers will have their hands on X-Gene gear and real tests will be made to verify such claims. And Intel, of course, is not sitting still and will be moving on to its “Broadwell” Xeon family, including its own system-on-chip.