3DMark Vantage Loves The Cores: QCs FTW !!

[Epsilon84]

I'm flattered that you went through the (if a tad incoherent) analysis to try to disprove me, but read my first post.

The "EFFECT" of the final cpu score is so low in 3dmark vantage that, even with a 4ghz QX9650 and a 3ghz Phenom 9850, one can manage to get very similar scores, which was not possible before.

I would like to see you try to debunk my statement on Tri-cores in the first post

Perkam

Umm, your original post linked to the CPU score of 3DMark Vantage, not the overall score. You never mentioned the EFFECT it had on the overall score, heck, your OP (before the edit) was just a 2 sentence job saying how awesome Phenom was.

If all along your intent was to show how the weighting of the CPU score has changed from 3DMark 06 then you took a while to actually get your point across. I haven't actually examined the weighting system much (I'm not a hardcore 3Dmark bencher ), if you have such data please provide it.

With regard to X3, this is what I've found:
http://www.legitreviews.com/article/697/11/
3DMark06 CPU score:
C2D E8500 - 2941
X3 8750 - 2733
E8500 is 7.6% faster than X3 8750

3DMark Vantage CPU score:
C2D E8500 - 6251
X3 8750 - 5942
E8500 is 5.2% faster than X3 8750

So X3 makes a ~2.5% gain on C2D from 3DMark06 to 3DMark Vantage, are we supposed to get excited?