More Sandy Bridge performance numbers (+Rumoured Pricing)

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It could be that the single-thread SB turbo is not yet working to its ideal aggressive setting, true. Doubt that there is much turbo in the multithreaded case for either part, I expect the gains have to do with the extra load port given to SB. They did promise HT improvements.

I think that you will see some very aggressive Turbo that will kick in with even all 4 cores loaded.Sandy Bridge has a GPU that sits idle in most non graphic intensive tests,so there is a solid power saving potential to tap into.

so the turbo mode could be off or not working normally?

I think he is referring to single thread results that are lower than with the i7,while the MT results are much higher.This looks like the situation where Turbo in "old"
i7 kicks properly to 2.8Ghz but sinks to lowly 1.73Ghz with all the cores loaded,while SB Turbo mode doesn't kick in properly with 25% load on the chip but clocks up way more with 3-4 cores loaded.