I think this new Tom article shows what we are talking about:

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...pu,2499-8.html

This is the games portion. They locked the clocks at 2.8ghz and tested the chips. The Intel chips pretty much dominated. Hyperthreading hurt the i7 on a few of the games tests. But if you turn that setting off it totally beats the AMD. This is properly what happened in that article the OP posted.