Quote Originally Posted by terrace215 View Post
Did you read the article?
No, because I am not interested in SB since I don't have enough money to get one. I just did a quick glance at the graphs.

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.
Great. So one can't compare the CPUs by their base clockspeeds anymore since they twiddle dynamically? It gets cryptic.