The Sandy Bridge Preview (Anand)

[Loque]

lol, they were trying to compare it to 980x in some benchmarks..

game performance was disappointing so far, hope they iron out that on retail..

[Iconyu]

lol, they were trying to compare it to 980x in some benchmarks..

game performance was disappointing so far, hope they iron out that on retail..

You didn't note the lack of turbo mode and clock difference?

[Hornet331]

lol, they were trying to compare it to 980x in some benchmarks..

game performance was disappointing so far, hope they iron out that on retail..

Gaming performance is limited by gpus... and it doesn't get better.

[terrace215]

game performance was disappointing so far, hope they iron out that on retail..

Factor in the fact that the comparison was to a part running at 22.5% higher clockspeed on the games that are single-threaded.

The retail parts will have turbo active, and will slightly outclock the older parts, in addition to their significant IPC advantage.

Looks like AMD is about to get Conroed, again.