Quote Originally Posted by Manicdan View Post
i think for best mix of performance for a simple and small pc would be to go with tri core and L3. not complaining about it being a quad, i just dont know how much it will be fully utilized. but if things are duel optimized u still have a core free. and i think if it was 3 cpu cores wide, they could have packed in more gpu performance, since thats easier to max out since its already built to for massive parallelism. but this could all be pointless if their low power states and turbo modes were incredible, which we will have to wait and see.
utilization of 4 cores will be irrelevant by the time llano launches. the only way for intel and amd to increase performance is to add more cores anyways. i think it's interesting that the die is 50% devoted for graphics and 50% for the cpu cores. if you look at a computer with an IGP it's a huge bottleneck compared to the cpu. this is quite a change in system architecture and it shows how important 3d gfx will be.