Doesn't the new P4 have 2 or 3 MEGABYTES of extra cache? It's not a big
surprise it beats a CPU at lesser mhz and lesser cache.

From a performance perspective, the P4EE beats the A64 in most
benchmarks in 32-bit at least, and as 64-bit is total pie-in-the-sky at
present, this is really all that matters.