Quote Originally Posted by gosh View Post
Did you read this?

• Sensitive to Sync (“cache coherency”) latency

One of the biggest bottlenecks for Intel has been the sync latency. It is possible that once the "sync" bottleneck was removed

In another thread (GTA IV) I informed about this and that wasn't popular because it is very hard to criticize Core 2 for the not having a L3 cache and data needs to travel through FSB which leads to bad synchronization between threads.
I think that you will see more applications that will gain much more now because you finally can take advantage of more cores without having to think about the design of the Core 2 processors.
About this test I don't know how it is done, what I do know is that if you run databases there are a lot of things in the computer hardware that has effect on performance.
When it comes to servers it is no problem to talk about synchronization but on desktop's some go crazy.
So according to you. Hypertransport stinks at this?

i7 already showed it can match dualsocket systems. So your statements are quite uneducated to put it mildly.