Quote Originally Posted by Calmatory View Post
So the improvement wasn't because of turbo? Then why there is no such improvement in multi threaded workloads?
Did you read the article?

The SB sample did not have Turbo enabled.
The comparison parts (i7 880, for example) did.

The improvement was IN SPITE OF Sandy having no turbo, against a turboing Westmere. And it was in spite of this SB sku having 1.5MB of L3 per core instead of 2MB.