Quote Originally Posted by justapost View Post
But the results he posted only differ in cpu utilisation (93% vs. 99%) and the SAPS 5730 vs. 10520. A cause for that lower scoring system could have been some marketing team asking for an crippled k10 result to make k10.5 look better.
If you look closer at the two benchmark tests, you'll find the slower one has a response time of ~1s, while the other has a response time of ~2s. This is what Micheal S of Realwordtech forums says about these tests:

Basically, there are two classes of SAP-SD 2-tier submissions - "fast" with response time around 1 second and "throughput-oriented" with response time around 1.6-2 seconds. It seems, average response time above 2 seconds is illegal.
The first class of submissions is far less popular and recently done almost exclusively on x86. All scores in my original post belong to the second class and have average response time very close to 2 sec.