the margin by wich the "8 core" CPU beat the quad i5 (without HT) on the video encoding seems very worrying, as far as I know this tasks scales much better than most,

on Dirt 3... HD6790 or 6970!?
and I bet that if they compared with even their old CPU (PII X4 980) it would be quite close to BD, they are probably more GPU limited anyway...

http://static.techspot.com/articles-...bench/CPU2.png
http://static.techspot.com/articles-...bench/2560.png

(look at the 6990 with i7 920 @ 3.7GHz, basically the same as the 980X and BD with 2x6970?, if this is the same version of the game, settings and benchmark)