Seems AnandTech in their Nehalem preview (http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/intel/showdoc.aspx?i=3326)
has deliberately modified the scores of Penryn from a cople of monts ago. Anand is claiming that the reduction of scores is due to a Vista update. (is that true?)
Scientia (http://scientiasblog.blogspot.com/2008/06/nehalem-appears-but-anandtech-chokes.html) has an article describing the diferences between scores of Penryn from january and the scores it used to compare Penryn with Nehalem. And the finding is that Penryn scores were higher back then by 980 points. (Efectively reducing Nehalem's advantage to 10% in a multithreaded scenario)
I don't know why Anand hasn't provided an explanation for reduced Penryn scores in the Nehalem comparison and if there really is a valid reason to those reductions (a Vista update? that has reduced the score of 3D Max 9 by 21%? I personally doubt it, and I would like to see a confirmation that this indeed happened)
Anyway I hope to see more professional testing soon.
has deliberately modified the scores of Penryn from a cople of monts ago. Anand is claiming that the reduction of scores is due to a Vista update. (is that true?)
Scientia (http://scientiasblog.blogspot.com/2008/06/nehalem-appears-but-anandtech-chokes.html) has an article describing the diferences between scores of Penryn from january and the scores it used to compare Penryn with Nehalem. And the finding is that Penryn scores were higher back then by 980 points. (Efectively reducing Nehalem's advantage to 10% in a multithreaded scenario)
I don't know why Anand hasn't provided an explanation for reduced Penryn scores in the Nehalem comparison and if there really is a valid reason to those reductions (a Vista update? that has reduced the score of 3D Max 9 by 21%? I personally doubt it, and I would like to see a confirmation that this indeed happened)
Anyway I hope to see more professional testing soon.