aap (apredtechenski@austin.rr.com) on 11/16/08 wrote:
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>David Kanter (dkanter@realworldtech.com) on 10/29/08 wrote:
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>>Ladies and Gentlemen,
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>Please take a read and use some of this information to think about how future CPUs,
>>such as Nehalem and Barcelona might perform.
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>>http://realworldtech.com/page.cfm?ArticleID=RWT102808015436
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>Hello folks, long time no see....

Hey Alexei, good to see you again : )

>This seems to be a nice analysis, with lots of details.

Thanks - my brother and I are proud of our work, although we recognize there were some shortcomings.

>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).

The Core 2 Duo beats the K8 for every benchmark.

I may have exact scores, but I'm not totally sure if we recorded them all.

David