Elmer,
Despite claims that Hammer would beat anything Intel has to offer, Hammer gets it's but kicked by Itanium in TPCC and edges out Xeon (for now)
I don't think you are reading these correctly. You have to pick a processor, and than look at it across all benchmarks, and see which one is an overall winner. If you pick Opteron vs. Itanium, Opteron is the overall winner. If you pick Xeon whatever, Opteron is the overall winner.
The fact that all the Intel processors combined are able to steal a win here and there vs. 1 concrete Opteron processor doesn't mean that Opteron is not the overall winner. With your approach, you could even add Alpha to the mix and point to some benchmark where Alpha is still leading and say that Intel is ahead.
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