Serious question, what are your thoughts on mining XPM with a
Xeon Phi?
Looks like those have a total of 57 cores @ 1.1 for a total of 62.7GHz of processing power. You can get 30GHz+ with an AMD Vishera for less than $200. I know the comparison isn't apples to apples, but I don't know why you'd spend that kind of money regardless.
Yeah, looking at that, i don't think you can really compare things like that just on GHz alone. Benchmarks put the AMD Vishera FX8350 at around 35 - 40 GFLops. That Xeon Phi 3120 is ~1000 GFLops. So about 25 times faster. Unless i am thinking about this wrong. That would mean i would need 25 computer builds with those $200 processors in them to achieve the same performance. That is in no way cheaper ($5000 for the processors alone).