When is 8 greater than 16?

When Intel is involved against AMD.

Quote:

---

At the Microprocessor Forum, Intel demoed its V8 workstation running the POV-Ray benchmark. The machine is equipped with Intel's Workstation Board S5000XVN, 2 quad-core Xeons 5365, clocked at 3GHz and 16GB RAM. And the results are simply impressive: Intel scored over 4,900 pixels per seconds versus a little bit over 4,000 for AMD's 4 sockets quad-core (Barcelona) system. Again, this is an AMD 16 cores system versus Intel's 8 cores V8 machine.

---

Historically, AMD had used POV-Ray to benchmark a real-life usage where their AMD processors basically stomped the Intel offerings. No longer.

Read more here...