Quote Originally Posted by roofsniper View Post
yea id really like to see what is going on with that l3 cache. intel seems to have designed a pretty good l3 cache but amd's could be better because of the fact of 48 way compared to a 16 way. if shanghai is already shipping hopefully we can find some benchmarks around here.
NDA be damned!! Found this on an AMD message board. I know, hearsay, BS, etc, etc. SOURCE

According to our internal testing, we found that its 20-30% faster than Barcelona on floating point applications like CAE, CFD, life sciences, etc. Its 20% faster on integer codes like Web and database applications. Overall, Intel Nehalem and AMD Shanghai are neck to neck across wide range of server applications.