Quote Originally Posted by Sentential View Post
If its a straight optical shrink (its not but just for the sake of this arguement) you're going to shrink it down by about 30%.

Assuming that the die shrink causes the chip to clock on a percentage basis with a conservative clock of 3200 (which most do with ACC) We are looking at Deneb clock speeds of around 4200 - 3900 mhz overclocks (which is quite close to what we saw with early screenshot leaks.

Part of why I went with Deneb is the assumption that the i7s when they go retail will be highly limited by what they can clock to (similar to the Q9300 on a X38 or an X48 based chipset)

That being said a 3.5ghz i7 will get romped by a 4ghz Deneb IF the price is the same, all bets are off however if the i920 does 4ghz @ release on retail chips
http://www.bmighty.com/blog/main/arc...tting_out.html

die shrink + removed resistor on parts of the Cache. lower heat lower load.

4Mb (Barcelona/Agena)vs 8Mb (Shanghai/Deneb) on average core 2 duo was a 10% increase with 2mb vs 4mb.

now shanghai/deneb brings 15% more IPC the Agena.

HT3.1 really helps the L3 cache which needs to be closer to core speeds.