> If the benchmark has any cache misses at all then you also want to make sure everything about the memory configuration is the same, too, for a fair CPU benchm

> If the benchmark has any cache misses at all then you also want to make sure everything about the memory configuration is the same, too, for a fair CPU benchmark, right? Number of channels, latency, etc. No. Adding that memory bottleneck would make it an unfair and worthless comparison. If you are testing the maximum CPU performance then you need to eliminate those bottlenecks, not create them.