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Manufacturing Process and SB VS Phenom II

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azadali

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Sandy Bridge clearly wins over Phenom II in almost each and every respect. However, the manufacturing process of SB is 32nm and that of Phenom II is 45nm. I was wondering, how Phenom II would have performed if it was manufactured also on 32nm process. So the question arises whether it is only the physical limitation of Phenom II or SB really has a superior architecture?

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It's not just the process. The i7 chipset has outperformed AMD in almost every way since it's conception. It's more than just raw power. That being said, real world performance varies based on application so AMD is still viable and it some ways a better buy, but Sandy Bridge is definitely the top of the mountain at the moment. Unless AMD can answer the i7 with something of their own, Intel is going to start seperating from the pack in a big way. The X68 looks amazing.
 
like Anteaus implied, its not quite that simple. if AMD had the 32nm process available to them during the development of Phenom II, AMD could have very well taken a completely different direction with its architecture. That is, we don't know that the Phenom II architecture would be the same (or even similar) to what it is now had AMD manufactured PHII CPU's on the 32nm process.
 
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