More Sandy Bridge performance numbers (+Rumoured Pricing)

[savantu]

So a new arch and only a 10% performance increase, or averaging only 20% if overclocked with turbo? Wow not too exciting. Ill have to dig up that other post that claimed a 50% performance increase was lackluster for a new arch. 10% plus turbo? Seriously that's it? Was expecting a LOT more by the way some people were talking!

So you're comparing a 50% increase in performance ( with 33% more cores ) at socket level to a 23-24% increase at thread level ?

If Intel ships SB EX with 16 cores what will we have compared to Westmere EX ? 60% more cores and 20% more performance per core....hmm 2x the performance ? Where does that leave Interlagos ?

IPC or Turbo boost? There sure is 15-20% combined jump,there is no doubt about that.And that is what the buyer gets which is pretty good.

Well, both of them have Turbo boost. The Nehalem being clocked so low used max step increase. We don't know what Turbo levels are active on the ES SB.

But something else is more interesting : BD was supposed to ship at the same time if not earlier than SB.
-Yet SB was demoed last fall, BD taped out last month.
-We have clear dates and pricing alread for SB, BD is " on track for somewhere in 2011"
-We have accurate and varied benchmark data for SB compared to vague claims of 50% more throughoutput at socket level
-The 50% claims were before they had real silicon it seems, based on projections. The question : is the silicon up to the expectation? The ambiguos nature of AMD's marketing screen offers no answer to this.