Intel Q9450 vs Phenom 9850 - ATI HD3870 X2

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Here is one:
http://connexitor.com/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=191

Clients	Opteron 875	Opteron 2347	Xeon 5345
1       3.1s            2.9s            1.6s
2       6.7s            6.5s            12.6s
3       12.1s           10.5s           20.5s
4       18.1s           14.9s           44.6s

There are some links to scaling samples in the thread also

EDIT: Let me add..


Ohhhhh, dual socket server... hmmmmm, sure. Ok.... that's fine, this I agree with... it really has nothing to do with ability to multithread, but really just gross overall bandwidth. There are a few server and many HPC applicaitons where the working sets are huge and the raw throughput is tremendous.... AMD's BW design really shines through here.

However, how does that transcend the bulk of the market? By this, I mean, where desktop and single socket clients... you know, the ones we use.