Still, its nice thats 8 core design, because from tech standpoint it matters so much. We will finally have properly written games that uses standard multi core cpu and gpgpu to its limit, so it will scale amazingly with anything in PC space, especially with smth like it 2600k, that has 8 threads, but its so much faster
Yes, they do when You are comparing them to Sandy Bridge or even Phenoms.
Threads are waaaay more important.