K10 Scores starting to surface

[PetNorth]

Actualy it is faster than K8 per core (if these tests are true).

not really. In Cinebench is exactly the same, what doesn't make any sense, keeping in mine K10 improvements.

[jabway]

not really. In Cinebench is exactly the same, what doesn't make any sense, keeping in mine K10 improvements.

Somehow the massive core improvements amount to a 3-4% increase against K8.

Doesn't make any sense at all.

[savantu]

Somehow the massive core improvements amount to a 3-4% increase against K8.

Doesn't make any sense at all.

Yes they do.

The K8 core is already strong to begin with.The law of diminishing returns is in full force here.

When you already start high , the improvements you make will bring little advantages.

Compare that with the P4 core which was far more fragile ( code quality was vital while the K8 eats just about anything ). Core brought massive improvements over the P4 , the score jumped a lot.Even compared to the K8 , core has a huge number of improvements , in the end it is only 20% better on average.

There are a lot of situations where K8 core+ 1MB L2 will be as fast or faster than K10 core + 512Kb L2 + 2MB L3 , especially where latency counts.In multithreaded apps , this will be more pronounced as the L3 will get trashed by different threads.

[uOpt]

not really. In Cinebench is exactly the same, what doesn't make any sense, keeping in mine K10 improvements.

The numbers are about 7% better per-core with the clockspeed normalized.