New MacPro  with Nehalem 2.93 Quad core

Has anyone used this with FCP? I'm just interested to learn what improvement in rendering and real time performance will be compared to my 2007 Dual 2.66G MacPro. Any advice welcome.
Thanks in advance,
Geoff

www.barefeats.com has some pretty interesting tests.
http://www.barefeats.com/nehal08.html
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