Quote Originally Posted by nn_step View Post
umm I would hate to burst your bubble but the performance difference between Conroe and K8 isn't that large, infact in a few places K8 does out perform conroe. So logically a 2.3Ghz Barcelona should directly compete against a 2.66Ghz Kentsfield.
On a side note the server market has carried Sun for the majority of their history and I do doubt that AMD could possibly be forced off the desktop market, where a 386 is sufficient for some people to browse the web and read their email.
BS. On average, C2D is 20% faster than K8 in 32-bit code and 14% faster in 64-bit code.

And the corollary is also true. In some things C2D is far more than 20% faster than K8. I know that in Folding@Home it is about 70-80% faster because of the SSE optimizations to that program.