I just did this math for our company a couple months ago.<p>Power8 memory bandwidth is VERY appealing. And, it&#x27;s not always just about cost per benchmark unit -- if you have some realtime requirements for your analysis tools, then scale-up speed can be really valuable as compared to dev time and management time.<p>In the end, we made the call for Intel because golang runs some key parts of our tools, and the golang power8 story isn&#x27;t there. But, as I gaze at our servers where we paid what feels like thousands for extra megabytes of L3 cache, I wouldn&#x27;t say I&#x27;m happy about the decision. A good go story from IBM would have likely tipped things the other way.