Quote Originally Posted by cdawall View Post
See it really depends on what you are doing as well. Take your max clocked nahalem and AMD chip toss both of them into a heavily multithreaded enviroment and the nahalem struggles, just like gen 2 i7's. Games are slowly moving that way and with the new consoles being AMD based I would not be surprised if multithreading got substantially better along with a bit more biased.
and when the world decides it needs more cores...AMD decides they only need 4 (possibly no +4 core steamrollers)