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SmokinJoe-Salem wrote:This discrepancy is explained by the AMD smaller L2 cache and no L3 cache,... I think.
Flying Fox wrote:SmokinJoe-Salem wrote:This discrepancy is explained by the AMD smaller L2 cache and no L3 cache,... I think.
The answer may not be so simple I think. The C2Q has well-known performance of SSE instructions, which the SMP Gromacs love. Back then the Core 2 architecture owned the K8's in that depart and the Phenom/Athlon II is now catching up (do them beat the older Core 2's? Not sure based on the results).