The Sandy Bridge Preview (Anand)

[Hornet331]

What a shocking revelation. That I posted about last week.

BD will bring a bigger jump in perf than nehalem to sb.

Intel is about to get athlon'd

You know that amd has deliver a performance boost of 35-40% over deneb (per core) to be in the range of SB, and thats with the current numbers, without turbo.

[hurleybird]

You know that amd has deliver a performance boost of 35-40% over deneb (per core) to be in the range of SB, and thats with the current numbers, without turbo.

You're forgetting that AMD's plan isn't to compete core per core with Intel, but thread per thread. One Bulldozer module competes with one hyperthreaded core. Not saying that it isn't a long shot for AMD to equal/beat SB, but BD is a new kind of chip that challenges the way we typically think about performance.