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informal: nehalem is not a core μarch, its a completely different proccess.
Penryn is a core μarch shrinked derivative.
Dont forget tick-tock model..

edit>@trueblue: lsdyna, mathematica, pam crash and fp in general are all memory intensive applications, hence imc has an advantage on that. However this is just a 10% of the pie, amd should have been improved to the 90%.