I was recently testing a commercial FEA package that uses Intel MPI libraries. It is 30% faster on an i7 vs the equivalent core/clock AMD. Another FEA package

I was recently testing a commercial FEA package that uses Intel MPI libraries. It is 30% faster on an i7 vs the equivalent core/clock AMD. Another FEA package that does not use Intel libraries has no measurable difference between the two processors. Waiting for the i10 to come out, with the 5.2 GHz boosted clock, as most of my software has diminishing returns after 4 cores.