Quote Originally Posted by savantu View Post
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 ?




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.
C'mon, deep breath huh?
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