And specfp_rate/specint_rate is heavily memory intensive. Why do you think there is no dual dualcore K8 in the benchresults? Its because it would own the K10 due to more memory bandwidth.
this has been said many times, the _rate benches do depend on memory BW,
as they use all the cores of the system (thus the more cores the more it
depends on the BW, just like in real world). But saying it is a pure memory
benchmark is naive from you. The _rate are the right benches for multicore
systems, if i need to say it again...

You do know K8 already today beats Core 2 with about 20% in that bench?
they should be about equal clock/clock in the fp_rate, maybe you should redo
the bench again, as it looks like some chips get more power with time, as seen above :P


Anyway, why do i have the feeling we discuss the same things over and over?
one more month to go, maybe at a certain booth on Siggraph we'll learn more