Intel Corp (INTC)

[Tim Fowler]

<Ii> Next, we loaded up another CSA Research tool, Clarity Studio. With Clarity Studio, we simulated multiple, concurrent workloads running in parallel -- the kind of complex, data-intensive multitasking that's becoming commonplace in emerging workstation markets (see "How we put the workstations under pressure"). "

Then my question would be did they benchmark those multiple concurrent workloads? If they didn't the AMD processor could have been getting more processing done but still get a lower benchmark score. The benchmark can get one virtual processor on an HT enabled processor and thus get higher priority, meaning that the Xeon would spend less time processing the background tasks.

If you want to see how much work a CPU gets done under "simulated multiple, concurrent workloads running in parallel" then you should benchmark the "simulated multiple, concurrent workloads running in parallel" and I don't think they did.

Tim