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ssj12 said:
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they are using PCmark and 3DMark, they scale to all cores.


Wrong, they scale to 4 cores. The difference between a Phenom II X4 and X6 at the same clock under PCMark is nearly zero. That favours Intel of course, but the benches are clearly unfair with the AMD GPU unless AMD plans to price BD a lot lower than the 2600K.

As an AMD fan I have to say: ignore these benchmarks, they have too little context to be representative and they could easily be an overestimate OR underestimate of the actual performance. Especially since clockspeeds are not final (btw 4.1GHz Turbo speed with all 8 cores active incoming!!).

I will trust benchmarks at launch from anandtech.com and techreport.com, both great neutral sites not afraid to criticise a company making poor decisions. Nothing else.