Quote Originally Posted by vitaminc View Post
radix 4 to radix 16 divider is a pretty boost in floating point. and floating point has historically been the weakest link in intel's design.
Quite the contrary, floating point always was and is the strongest point of Intel CPUs. Even then Intel struggled with P4 Prescott, blamed by everybody for high power consumption and relatively low performance -still its P4 had better floating point than AMD's K8.

Core2 has twice floating point peak performance than K8 -at the same clock speed. K10 should be able only to catch Core2 on peak, and given its (much?) lower clock speed, will have hard time to compete against C2 here.