[OpenIndiana-discuss] AMD FX-8150 ("Bulldozer") CPUs

[Mark Humphreys]

On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Robar Philip <philip.robar at gmail.com>wrote:

Notice though that its 8 cores are not a win for builds, whereas the build
> test is one of the few tests where the core i7 2600K really separates itself
> from the rest of the pack—being almost 30% faster than its nearest
> competitor and 50% faster than the rest of the pack.
>
> Does anyone have any idea as to why the core i7 is such a win for builds?
>
> Phil


Hyper-threading, which was reintroduced with the Core i7 / Nehalem chips,
combined with techniques like branch-execution prediction and higher clock
speeds make the Intel offering more powerful; but, of course, more
expensive.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper-threading

Regards,

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.\\ark