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Re: pgerassi post# 86259

Friday, 11/21/2008 11:02:35 AM

Friday, November 21, 2008 11:02:35 AM

Pete -

More indications that i7 2X may more than double Shanghai's performance in FP.

In addition, the Nehalem EP was tested with the Stars Euler3D benchmark, which is a computational fluid dynamics simulation that majors on floating point performance. Here, the Nehalem EP managed to complete five instances in 14.34 seconds, considerably better than the 30.32 seconds scored by a pair of 2.7GHz Shanghai processors.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Intel-Nehalem-EP-Gets-Early-Benchmark-98425.shtml

You have quite a task ahead of you. When Intel thoroughly trounced AMD in SPECint and SPECint_rate you decided they were no longer important benchmarks, and SPECfp_rate was the only true measure. Now it looks like you're going to have to dump SPECfp_rate and come up with another "true measure" of processor performance. Any candidates?