Quote Originally Posted by Ghostbuster View Post

Noted. Unless AMD improves the IPC per core performance, then it will continue to linger behind having to use more cores to match Intel's offerings. This is part of AMD's 'outcore' the competition, though it can only get them this far only. Just look at how far the AMD's competitor six core is at..
There is no free lunch.While intel invested in R&D and upped the transistor count per core(SMT and other improvements) ,AMD used the tweaked 10h core and upped the core count.2 different strategies,each has pros and cons. Either you invest in core logic and have larger and faster (IPC) cores,or you invest in smaller cores but cram more of them inside a chip. AMD will do similar thing intel did,next year with BD modules,upping the IPC and core count at the same time though.