Quote Originally Posted by Pontos View Post
If Ivy Bridge is really going to have only about 10% IPC increase compared to Sandy Bridge, then maybe Piledriver will be able to become competitive in the performance field and not just in the price field.

Maybe.

For real though, Piledriver better be competitive because AMD has nothing else until late 2013 or so, and Haswell will be released before that.
That seems highly unlikely consider bulldozer is not at all competitive with sandy bridge.