Quote Originally Posted by poke349 View Post
Yeah, I'm surprised at how evenly Phenom II and Core 2 Quad are matched. The program was written and tuned on two machines: Pentium D and Harpertown (the only two I had at the time). So I'd expect Intels to run faster. But obviously that isn't really the case.
this has to do with bottlenecks in the cpu. AMD has very fast execution units but slow retirement units and performs well under full load. the predecoding in core 2 limits performance in cpu intensive programs.