Quote Originally Posted by Cronos View Post
Quite the contrary, floating point always was and is the strongest point of Intel CPUs. Even then Intel struggled with P4 Prescott, blamed by everybody for high power consumption and relatively low performance -still its P4 had better floating point than AMD's K8.
Not really, for most FP intensive apps K8 at 2.4GHz was better than 3.4GHz P4. FP benchmarks are multithreaded and benefits substantially from HT, not a correct reflection of real world performance with singlethreaded apps. Compare X2 to non-HT Pentium D and X2 takes a clear lead.