Quote Originally Posted by BrowncoatGR View Post
You are speculating and presenting it as Gospel. None of us knows the IPC of K10. It is impossible to get a clear picture from AMD's statements. You want to speculate thats fine, just dont present your speculations as fact.
Do you have reading comprehension difficulties? I explained how I came to my conclusions. Of course it is "speculation". Do you really want every assertion every poster makes to be preceded with "IMO"??

And just because you haven't yet been spoon-fed 10 different reviews of Barcelona doesn't mean that the rest of us cannot figure out a fairly small window for K10 IPC based on what AMD has revealed in terms of its design and selected benchmarks. It's really not that hard.


As for compiler tuning,why would you run a K10 benchmark on code produced by the Intel compiler? If you meant that you would use Intels compiler for Clovertown and something else for K10 thats a really bad benchmarking practice as the scores are not directly comparable.
A K10 benchmark? It's the SPEC 2006 CPU integer throughput benchmark! Your last sentence is nonsense. SPEC is designed to compare the performance of different CPUs, not all of them even x86. Of course submissions use different compilers! Sheesh.