Enter the Dragon: AMD AM3 6-core desktop arriving in 2010

[ajaidev]

1 MB per core? It's not funy at all. After all you don't buy such cpu for single thread performance. If I remember it correctly, AMD estimation for specfp was 38% more performance for 50% more cores.
Also even bigger cache can't help to apps with streaming data. We can look at benchmarks from techreport:

100% perf diff going from Athlon II X2 250 to Phenom II 940
90% perf diff going from QX9770 to dual QX9775
41% perf diff going from Ph II x3 720 to Ph II x4 920... hmmm...

38% perf diff going from Opteron 2384 (2.7) to 2435 (2.6) with 3% diff in freq.

How can you compare 2435 to 2384 or x3 720 to a x4 920???

Oh and fyi the 12mb huge cache in a i9, well you do know that even SMT's eat cache so 12 threads means amm yes 1 mb per thread, now thats funny.

Forgot to add total cache the AMD hex core has is around 9 MB and total cache that a i9 has is around 13 MB, that is a 4 MB difference. Added to this how much 6 virtual threads also need cache.