Quote Originally Posted by Oliverda View Post
...or not.



The Phenom II X6 will have +50% cores and higher clocks as well. It will win by force of numbers.
the performance per core is lower than i7, and HT helps them lot in MT...
thuban can be very competitive in encoding and rendering scenarios, but it may perform just like deneb in any app that doesnt scale with more than 4 cores...