I guess now we know why AMD has kept the benchies close to its chest for over a year then.
Next stop, Nehalem!
lol, even though nehalem is 90% certain to be basically no different at all for all but 0.0001% of the market that buy the extreme editions. onboard mem controller will make next to no difference anyway, but will almost certainly only in xeon's and extreme editions which will be xeons branded for desktop.
next up, super pi shows a MASSIVELY different increase in scores than most benchmarks around. its one of a VERY small number of apps that can use the wider (can't think of the word right now, grrr, basically ipc, conroe can do 4, under VERY specific circumstances).
for instance the increase in performance on other benchmarks and a lot of real world stuff, games very often the conroe can't use its 4 ipc, but only 3. theres a couple of mostly synthetic situations that the conroe can use all 4 instructions per clock. super pi, it can't use 4 instructions so the barca would never, ever, even theoretically compete there. but remember, a plain old 2Ghz conroe would also not get 14second scores either. 14seconds is a 3.6-3.8Ghz conroe situation remember.
these first barca's are also much lower clocked, just selling up the stock of the first stepping. release desktop parts will be 500mhz -1Ghz from launch to the end of the year.
try running 4 versions of superpi 1mb at the same time on a kentsfield, huge hit on speed once you turn on the 4th copy. but still the case is that super pi is basically the absolute best conroe application ever made.
