Quote Originally Posted by Jacky View Post
Yeah, which will appear out of thin air to save them? Or will it rather launch in Q4'09 competing against Beckton (8 cores, 24mb L3, quad channel memory) and Westmere (32nm Nehalem)?
Of course that chip will be available only round 04/09. 8 cores on 45nm? At what frequency?
Quote Originally Posted by Jacky View Post
He is clueless as per Michael S from realwordtech (which BTW I have already linked in my first post) and I would believe a regular RWT poster any day over some random guy bashing anandtech in their comments, which unfortunately is happening all the time.
But the results he posted only differ in cpu utilisation (93% vs. 99%) and the SAPS 5730 vs. 10520. A cause for that lower scoring system could have been some marketing team asking for an crippled k10 result to make k10.5 look better.
Quote Originally Posted by Tiridum View Post
More cores will not solve this problem, this is about bandwidth, more cores will likely result in about similar performance then quadcores because the cores are bandwidth starved
Never said istanbul will beat those new xeon's performance wise. Bandwidth wise amd will need maranello to compete here again.