Quote Originally Posted by Goodman View Post
I'll take your word for it because i dont know much about specfp benchmarks , only the ones for desktop pc , 3dmark , sandra etc..
The rate benchmarks test a fully loaded system, and the non-rate benchmarks (e.g. specfp) are essentially single-threaded, using only one of the cores. If you don't have enough memory bandwith to keep all of the cores fed, it really hurts your rate score.