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The performance delta in 3DMark06 is too small to see an advantage for any of the devices.
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you could of chucked in a core2duo so that we could see the difference between intel and the new stepping.
You are reading the bottom of a coffee cup.
You say PCMark05 results show a significant difference and believe it to explain something to you. However, just beneath the PCMark05 result you show the results of another synthetic benchmark - SiSoft Sandra - and you ignore it. Can you explain why the G2 sticks out from all the others?
You then use the single F3 stepping to claim that the 65nm process makes no difference in power consumption compared to the 90nm process, and again ignore a detail. Is the F3 not using much more power than the other steppings and was it not manufactured in a 90nm process?
Last but not least, you are not giving out any information about the variances of the results, which however would have made them conclusive. When some results are inconclusive because they are all the same it does not mean that it makes difference in another benchmark automatically conclusive. To show that results are conclusive you need to look at the variances, too, when you see that the results are close together.
In short, you have made a large effort for saying nothing conclusive. If you are sure about the difference between the steppings (i.e. with the increased L2 latency) you should be able to make it much more visible since you know what to look for. If it turns out to be impossible then you should search for the reason why it is impossible instead of ignoring important details.