OK, since the importance on links has been placed, here's the link from the article discussing the benchmark graphic I posted, as well as an excerpt from it. I really didn't think it was that big of a deal, since I was responding directly to a (at the time) current conversation about comparative benchmarks... but anyway...
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SunSpider is quickly outlasting its welcome as a smartphone benchmark, but it does do a great job of highlighting issues with the Cortex A9's memory interface. Intel originally hinted at issues in the A9's memory interface as being why Atom was able to so easily outperform other ARM based SoCs in SunSpider. As we surmised in our A6 Geekbench post, it looks like Apple specifically targeted improvements in the memory subsystem when designing the A6's CPU cores. The result is the fastest SunSpider test we've ever recorded on a smartphone - faster even than Intel's Atom Z2460.
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http://www.anandtech.com/show/6309/i...er-performance
Cheers, and all that.