this is kindof random, but uhh... what does anyone make of this (apart from wishing it was k10 vs c2 instead of k8 vs c2)?

e4300's lead over brisbane 3600+ x2 in tomshardware cpu charts, ranked first released to last released :

game - release month/year - % lead

serious sam - 03/2001 - 9.7%
unreal tournament 2004 - 03/2004 - 10.2%
quake 4 - 10/2005 - 15.7%
prey - 07/2006 - 14.9% (was in development for 11 years according to wikipedia)
warhammer: mark of chaos - 11/2006 - 43.1%
supreme commander - 07/2007 - 73.4%

aside:
i was interested in CPUs when i checked it out, but figure i may as well do it for GPUs as well.

lead of 8800 GTX over 2900xt in tomshardware vga charts, max settings for each game :

doom 3 - 08/2004 - 10.9%
the elder scrolls 4: oblivion - 03/2006 - 35.4%
prey - 07/2006 - 60%
battlefield 2142 - 10/2006 - 81.0%
dark messiah of might and magic - 10/2006 - 37.2%
microsoft flight simulator x - 10/2006 - 27.0%
warhammer: mark of chaos - 11/2006 - 45.9%

harder to say really, one game from 2004 and the rest were all released in 2006.

i thought for a second perhaps it was a matter of instruction sets in core 2 giving better performance in recent applications that use them, but they're almost identical.. wikipedia:

"Allendale" (65 nm)
* All models support: MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3

"Brisbane" (Energy Efficient 65W, G1 & G2, 65 nm)
* All models support: MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, Enhanced 3DNow!


looking forward to doing this for phenom