I don't understand why people mixing Server and desktop CPU's.

For one people who're buying servers are buying them for exact purpose. With that in mind, K10 demolishes Intel in some erias, especialy if you consider price of they momentarly fastest chip - 2(8)350.

On some other fields, it looses. So, people who're buying servers will choos platform depending on their needs.

One thing is certain: no one will overclock these CPU's! With that in mind, it's pointless to draw conclusions about desktop part - Phenom from these benches. Phenom will work with much faster memory (1066 vs. 667 MHz, and will work on higher frequencies).

Also, saying that K10 flops on a base of very small nubmer of server benchmarks is skewing the bigger picture.

We still need to see Virtualization benchmarks, and I'm certain that with further improvements on software side, we'll se much clearer of what Barcelona is capable.

Very importan thing is that AMD priced Barcelona very realisticaly, so we can expect same thing for desktop part, and at the end that's all that meters.

Now, some benchmarks:











bare in mind that this is B1 revision, and Phenom will be B2