Quote Originally Posted by duploxxx View Post
lol nice crap post, check the benches again against 2,66ghz xeon and 2,7 shangai, i would say nice performance, yeah the 3,33ghz is better but so is it price and power and it has minimal volume against the other parts.
No, he is right. In the face of hype the results are disappointing. Some people took AMD's word (marketing!) at face value: 15-20% IPC gains, and even insulted the sceptics, I believe some people need to apologise.

Expected IPC gains and great power consumption if those benches are to be trusted.

In this test-suite (workstation/sever workloads mostly) IPC is about equal to Penryn with better power consumption. For desktop, though, Penryn is still untouchable - no fb-dimms and no need for high bandwidth.