Quote Originally Posted by Clairvoyant129 View Post
Are you blind? Have you even looked at the benches? Even in heavily multi-threaded scenarios, it loses to a quad core 2600k. It won't even perform anywhere near hexa core Intel CPUs like the i7 970 or the upcoming SB-E Hexas.

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You're right about one thing, BD plain sucks in single threaded scenarios.
I think you need to watch the video about maxon and intel, maxon(who make the bench your images refer to) worked directly with intel using all intel tools to create the bench, intels compiler(icc) is known to be horribly bias against non "genuine intel" processors, sending them a far slower code path then what they send intel parts, this means that no non-intel chip has a shot at beating intels products without either patching the program to remove the bias cpu dispatcher or change the cpuid of the chip in question.

http://www.agner.org/optimize/blog/read.php?i=49

http://youtu.be/-M1eX5Vvrg8

so, yeah, cinbench is yet another bias canned bench tool that really should only be used to compare chips of the same brand against other chips of the same brand, and even then, its turned to make better use of HT then more real cores im sure, after all, it was developed with intel tools and intel help.

its also why I dont trust sandra results, sandra has and likely always will be an intel bias bench, even back in the a64 days sandra showed the p4 being far better then it was in real life use....