Quote Originally Posted by EvilOne View Post
People also need to take into account the intel compiler that alot of todays benchmarks used aren't kind on AMD chips. If they can run code on AMD chips with older slower instruction set's it will do by default. I cant see that changing any time soon, so AMD will have to put up with it for now.

Atleast FTC seems to be trying to fix this issue.
Back again to same old stuff : ICC 8.0 did a check for vendor ID, newer versions ( currently ICC 10 ) have the check removed and will check for feature flags ( basically whatever the CPU supports the compiler will throw at it ). However, Intel claim no responsibility for code quality and bugs.
They say the check in 8.0 was introduced simply because AMD did not give them the detailled errata list for their CPUs ( obviously that AMD refrains from sending samples to Intel for validation ).
It would be like AMD sampling now BD to Intel so future updates to Intel's compiler can support BD features.