From what i've read across the interwebz about it... it was a Sandy Bridge-E chip... not Ivybridge...
Also, what's with the hostility about "you amd users?" Intel wouldn't worry about your sorry soul here... nor would AMD worry much about people writing here... We could always share information like mature adults...
Anyways... as i see it... Intel with its superior node technology will cram more and more trannies and more mb's of cache... on a cpu... On the other hand, in the short run, AMD which has a superior architecture with BD on the server side... has had quad channel memory since Magny Cours if you paid attention... will be playing catch-up...
http://www.agner.org/optimize/blog/read.php?i=49
It is for things like this and then some... for which i don't buy Intel...