Official AMD Barcelona Thread

[terrace215]

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.

Sure you can. Since a single compiler can already output different code for different parts (K10 vs. C2D, say), you are not comparing the identical code across processors.

So, you're looking to see which processor can "get the job done", i.e. PERFORM, best. So you might as well compare the performance of the best code you can get for each part, and that may mean using different compilers for your source code (i.e. the job).