Quote Originally Posted by informal View Post
Well those C10 numbers show i5 @2.66 being approx. one bin faster than i7@ 2.66Ghz. The only reason could be turbo boost being higher than on i7 part.i7 920 should do ~2793Mhz ,if not more, in single threaded apps.
Anand has mixed his cinbench results before, Scientia wrote a complete article inferring the incorrect conclusion because he was comparing 32-bit to 64-bit runs, I shot him an email I will see if he can provide an explanation.

32-bit single threaded, for example, I only see +1x bump


This is because windows scheduler is distributing the load across all cores (real and virtual).