AMD is back? Phenom II@3D06

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Better than Agena by some 12% per clock,but still lower than C2Qs.SuperPi is one of those little programs that prefers intel's low latency legacy fp instructions+huge cache mix.Oh and superPi is really slow at calculating Pi .

dont say superpi stuff, its just a total waste for comparison amd-intel.

Superpi likes, much, fast low latency cache, which phenoms doesnt exactly excell at either.
Their L3 cache isnt exactly fast to say it mildly, it got boosted quite abit in the phenom 2.

hehe sorry, I don't buy the cache argument for why AMD K8-K10 gets its butt handed to it in super pi..

Nehalem has very similar cache structure to K10.. though lower latency/faster it does NOT explain the massive IPC difference in this proggie.. esp since i7 is notably faster than conroe/wolf ..

there's obviously some other reason.. Love to know what it is exactly. Hell even 512kb L2 Celeron beats Deneb at it with no IMC not to mention Yonah even with 2mb cache, a 3 issue core and no marco-ops fusion Cache obviously has a lot to do with the scaling of the benchmark, as evident by celeron (conroe-L) vs 4Mb conroe, but it's how the cache is utilized that has a large bearing on it.. perhaps in combination with another unrelated factor

Almost worth starting a new topic over IMO.. It's an intriguing topic due to the populariy of the bench..