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You're still missing the big picture:
* QX9775 - 800MHz @ 5-5-5-15 (FB-DIMM)
* QX9770 - 1600MHz @ 7-7-7-20 (DDR3)
* QX6850 - 1333MHz @ 7-7-7-20 (DDR3)
* Q6600 - 1066MHz @ 7-7-7-20 (DDR3)
* E8500 - 1333MHz @ 7-7-7-20 (DDR3)
* E6750 - 1333MHz @ 7-7-7-20 (DDR3)
* Phenom 9850 - 800MHz @ 5-5-5-15 (DDR2)
* Phenom 9600 - 800MHz @ 5-5-5-15 (DDR2)
With less cache and therefore even more need to access the (slower, and on a slower FSB) RAM the Phenom suffers problems the Intel chips don't have to worry about.
Most of that leeway (infact last time I checked all of it) comes from the fact that they are based on 45nm technology.
If the Phenoms had the cache space and extra diesize space to play around with, they would be significantly - not even slightly, but significantly better.
Intel were losing.
They threw money at it and jumped ahead in a way that they knew AMD couldn't compete.
They're now using quite mature technology due to for the most part, their own advanced RnD.
You watch.
AMD'll scale down to 45nm by the end of this year and be competitive for a while, Intel will respond by doing nothing other than ramping their CPU cycles and/or slapping on a bigger cache and just charging more.
After that it depends on what the concept stuff plays out at.
Z-RAM could well have a HUGE impact, and Intel have their eyes on new markets.
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