jefforange89 on 24 February 2010
I beg to differ, it's mostly apps that benefit from the eight threads provided by HTT in the i7s that the top Phenom II X4s lose out in, so the extra two cores in Thuban should make it competitive... I think.
I'm pretty sure I read an article comparing the Istanbul-based hexacore Opterons to the i7s, and it was a pretty close match. And given that the Phenom II X6 will perform comparably, it should be as well.
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