I know, still I think it's not impossible. It's not only just larger L3 cache mind you. The L3 cache is now 48-way set associative instead of 32-way and there are a few more little tweaks.

We saw a 12% increase in SuperPI although that shows us in the end all. Although Phenom scales badly in SuperPI so it's interesting at least.

Of course Deneb wont be >= Yorkfield in everything, no way. But I do think in quite a bit more programs than Agena >= Yorkfield is right now to such extend it's possible to say Deneb => Yorkfield.