More Sandy Bridge performance numbers (+Rumoured Pricing)

[duploxxx]

look at the blue fanboy strain..... rape this, huge increase, amasing you guys, you really should start asking Intel for money to keep up the fanboyism in forums.
so pls now all you stay in this thread and leave your magic .... in here and ready to shoot

hexa-core and octo-core models (high-end client & server 1p/2p) are coming later, more like Q3/2010...

no server chips are not q3/2010 that is few desktop and mobile , servers is q1/2011.

If I look into dresdenboy picture I only see increase into multithreaded performance, single thread is actually no gain accept for some code specific increases which suspect special instruction enhancements.....
And testing done is from very generic programs anyone who would be expecting an avarage 20% gain for the same clock might be very disappointed.

Sandy Bridge is a new uarch in fact. The i7 in 45nm are the new arch, the Nehalem family, and the 32nm (Westmere if I'm not mistaking) is a die shrink. Sandy Bridge is a new arch, Ivy Bridge will be a shrink, Haswell will be a new arch and so on

You can caal it an uarch and intel for sure will call it one since they offered it in there tick-tock strategy but in the end this SB is using the same baseline architecture as Nehalem.