I have to say that I like the idea of more stressful benchmarks. Kennedy says he can go for another year without funding and is going to try to get Benchmark Studio wider acclaim. He's already shipped versions out to AMD and Via for testing. One thing to note is that a system with dual PIII-733s beat out a 1.5GHz Pentium 4. Read more at EETimes .
Problem is a lack of real world comparizons, which show completely different.
A replicator found that any significant difference could be traced to one element -a filter that Adobe said was a snafu on their PC version of PS6, which they would take care of in a point release. Other than that, times were roughly equal. I have to agree with the other three comments above on benchmarks being pro intel. Although, running benchmarks in 3dMark 2000 show the advantages of AMD over Intel. I own both Intel and AMD systems on my network so my opinion is not really biased.