Originally Posted by
TooNice
I am inclined to believe Conroe's claim for now.
We're getting some interesting perspective on Conroe, from the Journal of Pervasive 64-bit Computing. Such as this:
The conclusion is: clock for clock, Athlon 64 will beat Conroe in real application environments that require a working set of larger than 4MB, or in other words, larger than Conroe's 4MB cache. This means in any real multi-tasking or server environment the Core architecture will be an underdog. Even worse, for Intel's shared cache architecture, cache thrashing is a distinct possibility under heavy loads.