Quote Originally Posted by JF-AMD View Post
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ITYANRIC (I think you are not remembering it correctly.

It was not a single cherrypicked benchmark. The statement was a server statement, not a desktop statement. At launch there were several benchmarks that were 40%+ greater for Barcelona.

The second half of your statement is correct. The interwebs grabbed that statement and made it a generic barcelona vs. Intel statement just as I have seen people misusing the "50% greater throughput" statement about Interlagos.
AaH-WLFtPoaFPSR (As a Half-Wit Logic Follows the Probability of a Fifty Percent Success Rate)

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ISBNttGfAMDwUVOBatGwNY (It Should Be Noted that the Gentleman from AMD was Unfairly Vilified Over Barcelona, and that Gentleman was Not You)