CORE Or Boost? AMD's And Intel's Turbo Features Dissected

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Intel arms its Core i5 and Core i7 CPUs with Turbo Boost. AMD's hexa-core Phenom II X6 chips sport Turbo CORE. Both technologies dynamically increase performance based on perceived workloads and available thermal headroom. Which one does the better job?

Benchmark Results: Synthetics

AMD’s solution delivers marginally better performance on Sandra, but the differences are almost insignificantly small.

Patrick Schmid and Achim Roos