Quote Originally Posted by informal View Post
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 tweaks for each uarch(Core2,K10,Nehalem).
You know,the real stuff people actually use.WCG ppd also counts in too.
its more weird that since 2006 amd enthusiast suddenly claim that every benchmark out there favours intel and therefor isn't valide (exept of siencemark and spec_fp rate).

What do think happens in boinc? E.g. look at seti, the client is optimized by the community to support the specific instructions of certain cpus.

But sadly only intel gets allways the newst optimisations -> amd is at sse3 while the optimized intel client allready supports sse4.1

And no that hase nothing to do with fanboyism of there side, rather then the bigger userbase the can reach when they are optimizing for intel cpus.


Also why should a dev use generic flags for the compilers? To limit his program artificially? If theres is the option i would allways try to provide optimizations for both cpus or even certain architectures.