Intel WoodCrest Quick Review
Review of WoodCrest on Tom’s Hardware Guide.
http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/06/26/xeon_woodcrest_preys_on_opteron
Some attributes of the Intel Core2 microarchitecture are
Similar to Opteron, the memory controller is part of the Northbridge. This reduces the number of memory coherence checks for SMP.
The 2 core shares the same L2. This increases the cache hit rate and more importantly, no Front Side Bus load [...]
