[robina80]

i know intel quad cores cheapest line up is faster and cheaper than the most expensive amd quads, but my question is amd says its the first consumer processor thats true quad core???

[Spencer2004]

AMD touts Barcelona as a "true" quad-core processor, because it features a highly integrated design with all four cores on a single die with some shared parts. This is in contrast to Intel's "quad-core" Kentsfield parts, which use package-level integration to get two separate dual-core dies in the same socket.

[Cew27]

ok this may be wrong but as far as i under stand the inter quads are just 2 dual cores stuck together
where as the amd ones are true quads
the intels signals are split from one into 2 then into 2 again ... where as the amd quad cores go from 1 straight to 4
thats the simplest way to put it i saw a flash explanation on the amd website

[robina80]

so really the amd quad is better architexture from the intel quad

[Spencer2004]

ive seen some reviews and benchmarks of the new amd quads and apparently they are not very good, one benchmark rated the amd quad lower than the 6400 dual core. also they are more expensive than intel quads at the moment.