franco wrote:

the 1mb of cache is a common denominator.

Yes. However that cache is /'used'/ in different ways depending on how the CPU is designed.

the intel chip has hyperthreading as

This is an Intel kludge for the CPU's 'internal hardware task scheduler' to overcome CPU internal architecture bottlenecks. Some software can make good use of the feature. Most general applications see little benefit.

amd chip has hypertransport...

This is a very fast data path to main memory. It nicely improves overall system performance by giving a high bandwidth low latency path for the CPU to get and send data quickly.

the argument you use for your cause
is effectively moot , for the reason of it being
applicable to the athlon 64 chip.

???

Boinc will likely get clients that can take advantage of the 'special high performance features' of the 64-bit chips.


In short, you need to compare comparable real-application benchmarks.

Hope my translations to 'marketing speak' are understandable! (:-O)

Regards,
Martin