Quote Originally Posted by Rammsteiner View Post
Then I think we both have different opinions about underperforming. Comparing it to competition then to define it as underperforming is nuts IMO.
It's the only meaningful definition of performance, how well something performs against its current rivals. A Formula 1 car is incredibly fast versus virtually any other car in the world but if it's 1 second a lap slower than the fastest Formula 1 car racing at the same time, then it's slow.

And when you have a two company battle like in CPUs, it's pretty much a given that a CPU from one company will also be compared with a CPU from the other.

Well, Phenom actually does better at higher clocks than Penryn scaling wise, at least in gaming though.
That has to do with Yorkfield hitting the GPU wall much earlier.