Sandy Bridge i7 & i5 Reviews

[informal]

amdzone as an source of information - it is not even funny. just check the results - different versions of test suites, compilers and benchmarks.

No amdzone is just a link where one poster summed the actual results(and you know this,you are just using amdzone as an excuse when you are confronted with actual data). You can search for i7 results,they are pretty consistent as long as 64 bit version of linux is used(no matter what distribution).Also the test suite version has to be the same or similar subversion(as 2.00 vs 2.00.b2).Same goes for AMD X4/X6.

Example
(phoronix test suite 2.0.0) :
http://global.phoronix-test-suite.co...807-9811-25231
2 i7s @ 2.67Ghz compared on 2 diff. gnome kernels(x64),GCC 4.4.1 - result :199

(phoronix test suite 2.0.0b2)
http://global.phoronix-test-suite.co...45-12535-29612
1 i7 @ 2.67 on ubuntu 9.04 (x64),GCC 4.3.3 - result : 191.8

Pretty consistent result for i7 at the same clock,the difference is ~3% even though the OS,compiler and the test suite version are not the same(test suit version is the closest match i could get).