Quote Originally Posted by freeloader View Post
I own both, so a fanboy I'm not. Why am I saying that AMD is full of ,? Who's seen these benches beyond AMD walls?

Release some god damn benches by now and throw us a freaking bone.

AMD doesn't seem to understand their userbase. Sure us hardcore freaks account for maybe 1% - 2% of their total sales, but that 1% probably represents 10% or more based on word of mouth. I build atleast a hundred systems a year. They used to be about 85% based on Athlon 64's; now that number has dwindled to about 15%. I'm one person out of thousands who now recommends Intel systems. If you want me to tell my customers/friends to wait for something better from AMD, then let me know what's coming down the pipeline and what it's capable of.

I don't need to know every thing about the chip, but some nice video/audio encoding benches mixed with a few game benches would do just fine.
Sorry, those are all the benchmarks where Barcelona loses badly to current C2D and C2Q, let alone Penryn. They'll try to keep THAT under wraps for as long as possible.