K10 Scores starting to surface

[JumpingJack]

A small number of people really knows what is the launch stepping...
There is one more possibility,apart from EVTs,the boards weren't up to the task(ie early BIOS,some features turned down just to be safe in order to test the early chips for various reasons)

The BIOS argument is a decent one, but typically BIOS code does not interact to produce a computational result... it provides very low level IO code, most of which OSes simply ignore today. Though it could be that there are initializations for various functions that are not occuring correcty and such, but I have never really experienced a BIOS update, even a buggy one, to affect performance that much.

Nonetheless, there is way way too much contradictory information or conjecture. Theo seems to think it is a monster, Hector Ruiz is downplaying the significance, Raul is certain of great performance, AMD has conceded single thread perfomance to Intel in various press statements.... so it is hard to know what to make of this.