Quote Originally Posted by savantu View Post
Nehalem getting a 25% boost on single threaded code over Penryn is formidable.Why ?
Assuming the PR material is refering to absolute performance rather than a per clock figure, and Nehalem is being touted as unlocking 45nm High K/metal gate potential wouldn't most of the increase be from a clock boost, possible even drawn from the turbo mode?

Quote Originally Posted by Shintai
Moving things around dont change power consumption.
Dont off chip drivers consume very large amounts of power relative to on die buses? Elimination of a FSB link to the memory controller should reduce overall power consumption shouldn't it?