I don't see much amazing going on. It performs identically (within 5%) of the 2.4GHz Bloomfield in all of the tests except Cinebench and the synthetic Sandra suite. Probably because applications can't take advantage of twelve threads rather than eight.
This CPU will only be available as a $1000+ Extreme Edition or a server part anyway; probably less than half a percent of PC owners will have it. That size of market is the reason why AMD's six-core Istanbul isn't getting a desktop part.
All this proves is that there's no IPC increase from Nehalem to Westmere. Power consumption is down I admit.
And to think AMD and Nvidia are still waiting for TSMC to improve their 40nm wields (from like 20%...) to release some new stuff =/
40nm yields are fine, don't believe th rumours. AMD's 4770 is readily availible and their new DX11 stuff comes on September 10. The reason Nvidia have no DX11/40nm parts yet is engineering issues, not TSMC. Those parts are expected December at best.
