Xeon X3460 vs X3470

[wanderer]

Dear Admin

First thank you for such useful data.

On your CPU list, I read
X3440 5303
X3450 5422 2.66 GHz
X3460 6239 2.80 GHz
X3470 5902 2.93 GHz

Have those benchmarks been made in the same environment?

According to that table, a X3470 offers less performance than a X3460. Isn't that surprising, since AFAICS they are the same processor except for turbo mode and clock speed?

What is your explanation?

[David (PassMark)]

The numbers we report are average results across a number of different machines.

There was a low result in the average for the X3470 however. I have removed this, which means the new average will have the CPUs scoring almost identical results.

See also these notes about the graphs,
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/graph_notes.html