Quote Originally Posted by TESKATLIPOKA View Post
Great news guys, the noname blogger says his pal Peter sent him some tests comparing IPC between BD and Thuban at 4.2Ghz no turbo (1 thread)
SuperPI +22% for Thuban
Cinebench 10 +13% for Thuban
Cinebench 11.5 +23% for Thuban
wPrime 32M +42% for Thuban
Fritzchess (both 6 threads) +24% for Thuban
Seriously Its too unbelievable to be believable
Still these are from an ES chip. chew* and JF said that we shouldn't believe them.

Source: http://www.overclock.net/amd-cpus/11...aunch-faq.html

Q. I saw a benchmark on xyz website. Is that how bulldozer will perform?A. No. Nothing posted before launch will be representative of actual performance. To get actual performance, you need:

Final production silicon
Final processor microcode
Final system BIOS
Final OS optimizaitons
Final drivers
An app compiled with the latest flags
A person who understands the app and configures the test properly

Without these things (and there are probably more), you cannot get an accurate benchmark. Any extrapolation of a crappy benchmark gives you a crappy estimate of actual performance. Period.

Oh, and many of the benchmarks that you see were probably not run, those are just charts made in excel. It's really easy to make a chart in excel - what do you want, bulldozer faster by 3716%? Intel faster by 293%? Sure, I can do either one in 10 seconds. Why are you arguing about benchmarks that probably aren't real?