Quote Originally Posted by terrace215 View Post
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.
What im saying is that when you are benchmarking for raw CPU performance you have to use the same compiler, otherwise the compiler comes into play as well. That is ok when you benchmark to see how YOUR code will run but you cant directly compare CPUs like that.