Hi,

I would just like to chime in here and speak to some of the comparisons I have been seeing with regards to Sandy Bridge's IGP performance and Bulldozer's 480sp IGP. The Sandy Bridge sample shown by Anandtech is the low-end version with only 1 "core" or 6 Intel-type-SP-unit-things. The problem I have trying to speculatively compare that against Bulldozer's 480sp wonderkind is that you're comparing a low-end mainstream chip that will be out in late Q4 2010 to a high-end chip that won't be out until sometime in 2012 (in my opinion - I know there's no hard date for Bulldozer). There is enough trouble trying to compare SPs from differing architectures - we need to keep the market segment and timeframe at least somewhat in line if we're to make any reasonable comparison. If you were to guess how many SPs will be on a high-end Ivy Bridge when Bulldozer arrives, I would presume you wouldn't guess "6."