Phenom II 6 GHz+ OVERCLOCK

[qurious63ss]

The problem with relying on multithreading is that AMD can retaliate easily with 6 cores.

Yes, Intel will probably do the same (6 on 32nm), with AMD having 2 Shanghai/Istanbul (8/12c) dies on one chip as a strikeback.


So server/workstation side, it's rather futile. There is not going to be a Conroe like 2 year lead. It's 6 months - 1 year at best. Sandy and Bulldozer should shake things up a little, but they're both emphasizing on special instructions like AVX/SSE, I wonder how much more core improvements they can have.


Oh, and about the benchmarks. Remember- this is the "oh-so" inferior and narrow K10 architecture that only issues 3 instructions per clock, unlike Core 2. It getting even/beating the C2 is something quite remarkable.

6 cores on 45nm will make the die 50% larger so I don't see this as a wise choice for the desktop.