Quote Originally Posted by Nazu View Post
Netburst->Conroe was a bit different cos Netburst sucked so much that it was easier to get huge performance gains. K8 was much better than Netburst so it's not so easy to get that big performance gain. Though I agree that K10 isn't exactly a succes.
still, I know an intel engineer and he's been saying for a long time now the increase of conroe-->Nehalem will be similar to that of netburst-->conroe. I know intel has an awesome amount of resources, but still, amd should easily be able to pull 20% across the board over k8 especially with the 4 years it took for them to design k10, and if they wanted that market share and actually be able to call their product an innovation, k10 should have been at least 15+% superior to conroe across the board, and a lot stronger in areas where amd shines like fpu