Maybe so but this is the same thing I told Gautam:

So you're telling me that Nelhalem using tri-channel ram WITH an imc that is ring-bus based controller and 8 threads only beats Penryn by maybe 5% in heavily multi-threaded games? And it does this while dissapating 175W+ (high 60s low 70s load temps, ie Smithfield)?... Wow intel is hosed
This is the same thing people were saying when AMD had 2 consecutive issues with scaling when a new fab process rolled out. I and others said this was bad news for AMD long term and now look at where we are.

Just like back then the only thing AMD had to keep the Pent 4s at bay was efficiency because despite being a brand new tech it all scaled like crap. While going up against a 5 year old design (which is exactally what is going on now) that was worn out and well past its prime.

The fact that nelhalem scales poorly and has significant heat dissapation without bringing anything notable to the table in raw thoroughput is a BAD sign for intel.