Quote Originally Posted by qcmadness View Post
Then how about post-Nehalem CPUs?
The logic is flawed.
It might look flawed,but in reality,whatever was optimized for Core2 ran at least equally well or better on Nehalem. Small but very fast private L2 and large but still fast shared L3 was a design decision that came from monolithic die approach for quad core Nehalem(and similar in Barcelona's case).