Quote Originally Posted by mattkosem View Post
It doesn't really look that far off TBQH. If we check the difference between the 1100T and the 8150, it shows the 8150 as performing 33% faster. With the 1100T lagging slightly behind the reference i7 950, it's hard to draw a solid conclusion from that first pic anyways. We also don't know how accurate that second slide is either. The subtext indicates that the numbers are AMD's own official results (and intel's own on the 3960x), but from where and with what system configuration?

--Matt
Actually what we have now in the latest slides from AMD and what we saw from that first Scorpius slide is as different as night and day. Originally , the slide was portraying Zambezi as Thuban crushing machine,it was a massive 86% faster in legacy SSE code (C11.5) that supports 8 threads, a massive 50% faster in 3dmark 06 that is not so well threaded and a solid 15 to 20% faster in serial code such as PCmark TV and Movies benchmark. What we have now in all these previews and even "official" AMD slides that leaked is quite a bit slower Zambezi,a chip that barely can beat Thuban 6C in many workloads and that is on average just a bit faster than 1100T. It still has massive OC headroom though,but none of the advantages of new floating point unit is there any more. New FlexFP is now lagging behind one thuban core in many workloads,instead of outperforming it significantly. Something is not right. We can wait until launch for real benchmarks but probably we won't see much of a change .