Quote Originally Posted by Sampsa View Post

- Is there a performance difference in 05 between 975 D0 ES chip vs 975 D0 retail chip? Andre Yang's 48,7k score is done CPU @ 5460 MHz, I wonder how high you were running the CPU.. +5,6 GHz?
Didn't receive my retail 975 yet - but did some quick comparison clock for clock between the ES 975 and Retail Xeon 3540 - turns out the Xeon appears to be slightly quicker clock for clock. Probably the same is true as it has been in the past; that ES samples often are slower compared to retails.
This probably because of some extra "de-bugging" code in the microcode for developers. Don't know if that is true - just my assumption