David Kanter (dkanter@realworldtech.com) on 10/29/08 wrote:
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>Ladies and Gentlemen,
>
>I am very happy to announce that my brother Aaron and I have written up the first
>part of a long over-due article that takes a deep dive into the performance of modern CPUs.
>
>Two years ago, we started playing with Code Analyst and VTune to gather performance
>profiling data on common gaming benchmarks. Our goal is to try and dive one level
>deeper than traditional benchmarking and quantitatively explore why Intel's Core
>2 is vastly superior to AMD's K8 for the benchmarks we selected.
>
>Our articles goes through many of the problems we dealt with (such as flaky tools,
>inconsistent results, etc.) and presents a substantial amount of data on relatively modern applications.
>
>Please take a read and use some of this information to think about how future CPUs,
>such as Nehalem and Barcelona might perform.
>
>http://realworldtech.com/page.cfm?ArticleID=RWT102808015436
>

Hello folks, long time no see....
This seems to be a nice analysis, with lots of details. However, I could not see an answer to an ethernal question, which of two processors perform better on these workloads? Probably, before forcing a reader to go through details, it is quite natural to ask how significant is the difference in real performance (I mean benchmark scores or execution time).

Cheers,
- aap