Quote:Or 2-3 threads. As long as it's 4 or less sandy bridge will DESTROY gulftown. Dolphin for example, and all emulators for that matter. It's pretty hard to come up with a real world scenario where gulftown will win (even though it costs 4 times as much and has 6 cores). Sandy bridge still manages to win 99% of the time in all of the applications that people actually use. I'de dare say their are more applications out their with 2-3 threads that are in need of more performance than highly parallel visual applications.
nope, any i7 multithreaded processor, as long as the clocks are the same performs on par with sandy bridge.
DMI maxes at 2GB/s between the interfaced parts and cores, whilst QPI is >16GB/s based on Uncore speeds.