>> e6500 is certainly above Atom in performance.

> What I meant was in relation to the 970 and the ARM CPUs you were comparing.

I really don't want to hazard a guess here as to how e6500-based chips would compare to the PPC970 or to chips with Cortex-A9 cores or Krait cores or to the Apple A6 in Geekbench. And I guess we will never see Geekbench scores for e6500 anyway as there's no Linux/PPC version of it.