>>>Agreeing with Craig: unless you have proof positive via measuring conversion process on two otherwise identical test machine to be one of the few cases to be better suited for AMD, go for Intel if you aim for highest perf.
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>>http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=AMD+FX-9590+Eight-Core&id=2014
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>>when you look at the breakdown in other links of the actual tests and not focusing on the video gaming graphics tests, for memory intensive programs, the Intel I7 3930k or AMD FX 9590 Eight Core are at the top.
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>Look who's here again!
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>http://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleThread.html
>will be the correct index to measure his (1/3 of time) vfp task. As he has a specific process for the rest, if that one process can utilize 8 cores, AMD might be in the running. Often that is not the case for single tasks, but general work spread out among cores can still be handled by AMD.

Hmm, not 100% sure about that. I see nothing on that page that describes exactly what test(s) make up that score.

For example, at http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_test_info.html a "Single Core Test" is described as a combination of floating point, string sorting and data compression tests. VFP makes basically zero use of floating point. String sorting definitely yes. From the description of the Compression test, it may be useful for VFP as long as the algorithm is coded and compiled to avoid SSE or its descendants.