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Intel has 8-core i7s, up to 18-core Xeon processors, and up to 61 cores in Xeon Phi coprocessor packages.

Intel is trying to do the same with Xeon Phi, and they're certainly throwing their weight behind it.

And the Xeon Phi might get there, if Intel manages to do what they promise for future generations.

Anything that spends a portion of its time running out of L2 or better on the Xeon will be significantly faster.

Linodes give you four Xeon cores, and frequently outperform many low to mid-range dedicated servers.

This is especially interesting considering Intel's recent inroads into the GPU market with Iris Pro graphics, even bundling them with certain Xeon CPUs.

Probably an intel xeon (or i7?) overclocked and cooled with liquid nitrogen.

Intel doesn't have a problem dissipating heat from their all-CPU Xeon giants.

I believe the Xeon Phi is doing quite bad in that comparison, so you don't see much benchmark trumpeting from Intel.

One Xeon ought to support at least a dozen PS3s.

But processing 500-600/sec across 2-3 processes on a dual core 2005-era Xeon would not have been challenging even then with that quite naive and dated approach.

The dominance of China is achieved through the use of Xeon Phi accelerators, which may be great for Linpack, but have not made much of a splash for applications yet.

Skylake (Xeon AVX-512) handles 16 float wide vectors (512 bits) and can dual issue per clock, bringing effective rate to 32.

As someone else pointed out, they're doing ~4k/sec on a modern dual-core Xeon.

Xeon Phi currently has 61 cores[1] (62 on-die, 1 deactivated for yield reasons), and the next generation coming soon pushes that to 72 cores.