AMD K10 (Barcelona) at 2.5 GHz beats QX6800 in multimedia
 

In multimedia stuff and this synthetic benchmark AMD's native quad core is 33.3 percent faster than Intel's fastest Quad core, while in the floating calculations it is a massive 66 percent faster.

The QX6850 with FSB 1333 might improve the situation a bit, but it won't be enough save the day. Intel needs to go much higher than 3 GHZ to match the 2.5 GHz K10 part.

http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?op...663&Item id=1

Oh joy, back to AMD then :D.

Any game benchmarks already?

well, the source is even less credible than the inquirer and there must be a reason that he only pics synthetic benchmarks