Intel has been a tricky little so and so... and not just of late. It knows how to market stuff... and boy does it spend some money on that... I'll bet £10 that they spend more money on marketing than AMD does on R&D... Well, AMD doesn't have that kinda cash... This story isn't about the "tricky little so and so" part but it does have a role to play...



Intel is stating that the Sandy Bridge is 20% faster than the Arrendale, but that is in part to the new instruction set(s) and in part perhaps to faster clocks(unconfirmed)... What is confirmed that when Intel said this, it compared top of the bin chips, whether the clocks are the same, is anybody's guess and that is the tricky part.

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Intel told its special few that upcoming Sandy Bridge, dual-core mobile CPU should be around 20 percent faster compared to Arrandale.

These are still projections despite the fact that Intel has had Sandy Bridge since last IDF that took place in late September 2009 and that prototypes of this new 32nm architecture are out.

The „around 20 percent“ projections are made when Intel compared the top range Sandy Bridge (SNB) and top of the bin dual core Arrandale. This doesn’t necessarily have to mean that Intel compared two processors at the same clock. We do know that Sandy Bridge has new Intel AVX instructions but we doubt that they can pull some 20 percent performance increase clock to clock.

All in all, we are sure that the top high end Sandy Bridge should end up around 20 percent faster than top currently shipping Core i7 based on Arrandale 32nm dual-core.