While I do agree completely, I was just trying to point out that more cores do not mean higher average performance on desktop CPU's due to the usage model.

Quote Originally Posted by qcmadness View Post
That comes with the use of power gating and TurboCore / TurboBoost.
Turbo Core on Thuban, TurboBoost and power gating on Intel CPU's . (next gen AMD will also have power gating, but that's another story)