Quote Originally Posted by Hans de Vries View Post
Keep in mind that the AMD K10.5 cores are much smaller as the the
Nehalem cores. Here a compare at 32 nm



So the Nehalem cores are 10%-15% faster in single threaded applications
and another 20%-30% through the use of Hyper Threading. They achieve
that at a cost of being 1.8 times larger.


Regards, Hans
You have hit it on the head

This is my post where i was saying the same thing...

I do stand by my est. of dual llano < dual sandy bridge < quad llano < quad sandy in performance tough.