I don't know if it's allowed, but as some may know I'm within days of building myself my dream system, which will operate on a AMD FX-8120 8 Core chip! So in anticipation of that build, I voted 8 core!
It isn't even 8-cores. Check the architecture.
Close. Xeon E5 (Sandy Bridge-EN/-EP) are 8 cores active. The same die as Sandy Bridge-E (X79) which are technically 8-core but have 2 (or 4) cores fused off along with some of the L3 ( 20MB for full-fat E5, 10-15MB for Sandy-E) and one of the QPI interconnects.How is the 8120 not 8-core? I also don't think you can get a consumer level 8-core intel chip. I'm fairly certain you have to move up to Xeon E7 series chips to get 8 cores.
Actually four two-core modules- technically eight cores, but since each module shares instruction scheduling/resources between its two cores, it isn't much different from the 4 cores+4 threads (Simultaneous Multithreading- SMT) that Intel employs - which is why Intel's 4-cores+HT trump AMD's 8-core (that and Bulldozers horrendous L2 cache latency) in the majority of situations.I don't think their lying here, both the FX-8120 and the FX-8150 are both certified 8 core processors!
which is why Intel's 4-cores+HT trump AMD's 8-core (that and Bulldozers horrendous L2 cache latency) in the majority of situations.