Intel's 2nd Generation Core processors 29 new CPUs and enhanced graphics

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zarx said:

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IllegalPaladin said:

Cool, bring on the competition!

April-May.

Actually AMD will certainly have the lead, because they will have 8-core processors while Intel will only have 4 SB cores until Q4.

hyper-threading and slightly higher performance per clock will make it a close fight I think.

I don't think so.  Four Phenom II cores are behind about 50% against a similarly clocked SB, so even eight Phenom II cores today would win. And BD will have higher IPC according to AMD (since it's their first all-new architecture since 2003 I would hope that is that case).

Bulldozer will clock very highly anyway; it is designed as a Pentium 4 like speed demon.