When I come to Tom's forums and see such stupid posts as this one I reserve the right to be an A$$.
No offense but someone please tell me why I need to care about all these benchmarks that people get so offended about?
Open source benchmarks
* Dhrystone: integer arithmetic performance
* Fhourstones: an integer benchmark
* HINT: It ranks a computer system as a whole.
* Iometer: I/O subsystem measurement and characterization tool for single and clustered systems.
* Linpack / LAPACK
* NAS parallel benchmarks
* PAL: a benchmark for realtime physics engines
* POV-Ray: 3D render
* TPoX: An XML transaction processing benchmark for XML databases
* VMmark: a server virtualization benchmark suite from VMware.
* Whetstone: floating-point arithmetic performance
When I am sitting at my computer playing City of Heroes......why should I really care? That is all I am saying. There are two sides to a coin, and computer performance is relative to the user. That is all that I am saying. It is an argument that neither one of us can win.
Just because some thing does not bench well does not mean there is not a market for it. AMD cpus are selling very well regardless.
Ok you can bash me now.............