First Shanghai benchmark results.

[Calmatory]

its quite funny....
when it turned out that phenom consumed more then kentsfield (cpu only), it was irelevant and only platform consumption was relevant.
Now suddenly people who said platform only counsumption matters, say cpu only is relevant again?

Seems quite hypocritical to me....

Did this come out as a surprise? Same with ATI vs. Nvidia. Same will happen if/when AMD goes past Intel once again.

Intel is offering a CPU, AMD is offering a whole platform, but I know this is about CPUs.

Absolute max. power consumption of ci7 is higher then for C2Q, but if you compare it running the same apps (as anand did) they need less power for the same task. The 4 "virtual cores" have a price.

Your point being? Sounds like a poor excuse for the higher power consumption. Does it matter really what is in if the results speak for themselves?