Quote Originally Posted by savantu View Post
What is the reason then for the 12% gain ? Enlighten us.
Don't ask me, I'm just putting out there the fact that people's 'expert' opinions are conflicting.

I don't know how Super pi runs, what the cache access is like, Perhaps it's a combination of minor arch improvments, cache latency (L2 still had room for improvement on Agena/barc) AND the L3 size.