Nehalem-EP......BLOOMFIELD

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It is weird we discuss the numbers Nehalem puts out based on one app that does favor intel hardware more ,and that's Cinebech(what's the use of Cinebench anyway?).
I would like to see some 3D Studio,Lightwave ,Maya etc. numbers.Also some head on comparisons with enc./decod. using optimal compiler paths for each uarch(Core2,K10,Nehalem).

Cinebench is a 3D rendering benchmark. So it is a good benchmark of how well these CPUs will perform with rendering. And I wouldn't say it favors Intel hardware at all. K8 actually isn't too far behind Conroe in Cinebench. Unfortunately K10 does very little to improve performance in Cinebench beyond adding more cores.

To me one of the most exciting things will be that a quad-core Nehalem overclocked to 4.0GHz will roughly equal the performance of 16 Barcelona cores @ 2.3GHz in Cinebench.... 4x Opteron 8356 is currently a $6,000 setup. A 4GHz Nehalem might be possible out of a $284 CPU.... and certainly the $999 XE part. Obviously you can't overclock a CPU when you are doing critical work, but the power that is going to be available to enthusiasts with Nehalem is quite amazing.