Quote Originally Posted by Hans de Vries View Post
I didn't hear anybody complaining when your competitor achieved 33% more
performance with 50% more cores in Westmere....


Regards, Hans
The difference is that Westmere is really fast, almost ridiculous IPC. MC is fast to, but it's IPC/core really needs some improvement for desktop users.

It doesn't matter much if Zambezi will be quicker than Phenom II if the performance gap between AMD and Intel continue to grow.