Quote Originally Posted by ajaidev View Post
How can you 2435 to 2384 or x3 720 to a x4 920???
And what is an actual difference? Only number of cores (and frequency in case of opterons)

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.
Let's not forget 3-channel DDR3, better prefetchers and memory disambiguation (which is missing in Phenom).