Quote Originally Posted by Chad Boga View Post
Not that it is going to make any great difference to the finished product either way, but I wonder how much of Deneb's improvements are due to the process and how much are due to fixing issues which plagued Barcelona?

Barcelona was quite a rushed design afterall.
Yes, the core has gone some optimizations such as fiing coldbug and allowing high clocks(dunno if it is due to 45nm or an actual march fix). IPC-wise there is not that much, except 3x bigger L3 and lower latencies(?).