AMD Phenom X6 1090T Black Edition & 1055T launch on 4/27

[Oliverda]

And that would be the case only when heavily(more than 4 cores) multithreaded software comes in to play. For the rest of the apps, which are not optimized to utilize more than 4 cores, and such are most of the apps available today, the extra 50% cores will be useless, while the higher IPC of Nehalem will yield higher performance.

Looks like that you forgot about the higher clocks.

I agree, most of the apps you mentioned can take advantage of the 50% extra cores, but that won't yield 50% better performance. Most of these apps will yield no more than 15~20% better performance.

15-20%?!

Exactly. And in such scenario, Nehalem dominates over same clocked Phenom II.

Luckily you will get +400-500MHz core speed with AMD for the same money.

please, dont be ridiculous
an i5 750 @ 2.66ghz beats PII 965 @ 3.4GHZ in pretty much all scenarios..

do I really need to post benchmarks of bloomfield @ 3ghz against deneb @3.5-3.7ghz?