Nehalem-EP......BLOOMFIELD

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Yes, you can compare them but what is the relavance of that comparision?

As long as the apps are multithreaded its very relevant. If the 4core with HT performed identically to the 8core barcelonas that would that would be very interresting and relevant. No?

what that test did show is that the 8core barcelonas wasnt twice as fast as the nehalem. Ofc that was expected since each nehalem core is much faster than each opteron core. But the test show how much difference it is between the 2. (in that test atleast)

If I run a benchmark on my old single core FX51 and then run that same benchmark on my 8 core Harpertown what am I learning from that time spent?
Something that I already know, the Harper is faster.

If u go with that, why bother testing anything, u already know its faster...

You only get relavance when you compare one apple to one apple, not one to eight or four to eight.. I think that was the whole issue here.

Matter of definition. Comparing one computer to another computer, thats apples to apples in my eyes...