Quote Originally Posted by Epsilon84 View Post
I'm sorry, I guess your enthusiasm caught me off guard. I shall comment no more except on the technical aspects of this release.

I was responding to perkams post in regards to the X2 6500. However, even if it is indeed a Brisbane @ 3.3GHz, its still misleading since a Windsor X2 6400+ will beat it in the majority of benchmarks. It takes a ~250MHz advantage for Brisbane to draw level with Windsor due to the smaller and slower L2 cache, this is how a Brisbane @ 3.3GHz would compare to a stock X2 6000+:

If we are looking at overall performance a '6100+' rating would probably be the most accurate, but hey, its marketing at the end of the day, it looks like AMD has learnt a thing or two from nVidia.
if you want to keep it technical you could start with this: Brisbane G2 cache is no longer slower then f3 windsor cache, so its only the smaller cache size.