AMD 45nm Deneb Pictures, CPU-Z and Super Pi Results

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Power budget limitations would be my guess, they seem obsessive about performance per watt over simply raw performance numbers. The SRAM cells are identical between Phenom's level 2 and 3 caches so it seems unlikely they causing the limitation, that said I can recall JumpingJack suggesting AMD's 65nm process my have issues with excessive wire delay which would impact on level 3 cache.

I wonder if AM3 will see a boost in northbridge clockrate as an enticement to upgrade. The 1.8GHz clock in the enginering sample might be simply to maintain AM2+ compatability, or maybe thats just wishfull thinking... (?)

interesting theorie, if it really turns out that 65nm was "bad" process and 45nm is a lot better it might be possible that deneb can outperform yorkfield. I think they still can't outperfrom nehalem (with the results that we where given till now), but it seems they can demand more money for deneb then for K10 which is a good thing.