Quote Originally Posted by Movieman View Post
That is true and I do agree with you on that point BUT to gage the effectiveness of a processor or shall we say rate it against others the only reasonable way to do so is to have both run the same app and compare them.. As in the benchmarks that we run.
I assume your familar with benchmarks?
I didn't say that the benchmark you suggested is not a decent benchmark, I just said that your claim as it being "very real world comparison" isn't always correct.

Next to the obvious fact that everyone has a different opinion regarding what benchmarks should be used to measure performance and how those measurements should be compared, there are much more other factors to take into account if you want a real world comparison: price, heatload, idle power drawing, availability and so on.

I'd say that your BOINC benchmark would give a fairly good indication of what this CPU can do in comparison to an Intel alternative. However, scoring lower doesn't mean it's worse, even in your benchmark. If it's 25% slower, but 50% cheaper, you could buy two and have a 50% faster platform .