Friday i was lmao with all the FUD that was going around in this forum about K10 when we were at only 3 FRIGGING DAYS from solid numbers... now it's not days it's hours and the FUD remains.

This Red character is making an amazing job, with the watershed of SPEC scores, some of them where SPECint base is higher then peak.

SPEC scores ARE NOT SET IN STONE, did you missed the "miraculous" score improvements Xeon's got in just a few weeks?





What? do you think K10 scores won't go up either? Do you seriously think with the amount of K10 systems that are going to be submitted to SPEC, K10 scores aren't going to rise? How do you know that those IBM scores aren't going to be among the worst that are going to be submitted to SPEC?

Do you want to be fair and look smart? Compare the first Clovertown scores in SPEC to the first K10 scores:

Clovertown -> SPECint2006 12.0 SPECfp2006 10.9

http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/...202-00322.html
http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/...212-00416.html

K10 -> SPECint2006 11.6 SPECfp2006 11.2

That Clovertown is the best score when it came out, the K10 score we don't know if the best or the worst.

Now some math... comparing the amd leaked slides to the IBM pdf we got this:

K10 1.9ghz -> SPECint_rate2006 83.2 SPECfp_rate2006 73.0

K10 2.0ghz -> SPECint_rate2006 88 SPECfp_rate2006 77.2

K10 performance raises around 5,5% with only 100mhz.

Base in the latest SPEC scores submitted by Intel, c2d only gets a 9,5% jump in performance with 333mhz, where K10 with 300mhz will get something like 16,5 % boost, so or K10 IPC is higher or those IBM scores are low.