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On multithreaded benches Conroe's apparent lead shrinks accordingly. It's not just me claiming it's the memory controller it's AMD and whole world vs you, the amatuer sophistrist. I will go to the trouble of digging out an even more specific quote as you are too intransigent to connect the obvious dots.

K8's improvements were in the SSE engine (which do not tend to be used in cache bound synthetic benchmarks), the front end (which would require more diverse traffic and instruction mix than one designed to be completely cache bound), and some aspects of the execution pipeline (which might not be affected by the type of computation used in the synthetic test in question).

Firstly the benches weren't synthetic and your characterisation that the K8's uarch changes can't be used on cache bound work is just yet another example of your biased ignorance being paraded as knowledge.