[iheartmemcache]

Yep, with you 100%. Anandtech (especially Anand himself) usually does pretty rigorous benchmarks but this is either a poorly executed comparison or intentionally biased towards POWER8 (and I say this as POWER fan and former IBMer). I'm really let down by this review.

Another HNer went into detail as to why the comparison is flawed but basically when you compile with a compiler made by the chip designer, especially for numerical computation, the performance is almost definitely going to slant towards that direction. GCC and Clang have to focus on dozens and dozens of backends. Anandtech has more than enough money to spend 1k for an ICC license.