Quote Originally Posted by Jazzman View Post
NDA be damned!! Found this on an AMD message board. I know, hearsay, BS, etc, etc. SOURCE
Also he answered
You don't believe its 20-30% faster than barcelona. The chip has 30% higher clock, 300% more L3 cache and some IPC improvements over Barcelona.

BTW, Barcelona scales better than Intel Harpertown when you run on all cores.
So his comparison is not clock by clock.