Sandy Bridge vs. Gulftown

[Fun Guy]

I've done some searching and don't understand the difference (if there is any), other than the socket. They're both 32nm technology....what's the diff??

 

[Markfw]

One is 4-core 8 thread, and one is 6 core 12 thread. Not to mention that the engine is completely different.

 

[Edrick]

Different uArch for the most part.

Gulftown is Westmere, which is a die shrink of Nehalam.
Sandy Bridge is a new design.

 

[LiuKangBakinPie]

600usd
One is more a bit of everything pc while the hexacore is a pc that wants a lot of threads thrown at it to perform. More for the guy making a living off it in heavily threaded apps

 

[Martimus]

The Sandybridge architecture is a new architecture. If you want to understand the difference between them, here are a couple good articles you can read:

http://www.realworldtech.com/page.cfm?ArticleID=RWT091810191937

http://www.anandtech.com/show/3922/intels-sandy-bridge-architecture-exposed

And here is a review of the actual processors:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4083

 

[LiuKangBakinPie]

Here is real systems of people who make a living of their PC and the reason why they pay 900usd and more for a cpu
http://ppbm5.com/Benchmark5.html
Even old timers are into overclocking.