Quote Originally Posted by Sentential View Post
That being said a 3.5ghz i7 will get romped by a 4ghz Deneb IF
No. There is no "if". Just no.

Deneb is just a die shrink of Agena, and at best will offer 5-10% performance improvement clock for clock. It's like the R600 to RV670... just a die shrink, with maybe some minor instruction set optimizations as well. How do we know this is the case?

AMD has said nothing about architectural improvements, because there are none. It's the same architecture, just a die shrink, with some very general talk of "25% performance boost". My arse.

It was the same with the transition from K8 to K10. AMD was silent on anything relating to architectural improvement, and instead talked about HT 3.0 and DDR2 and other things that don't really improve performance. And same with R600 to RV670.

But you notice that with RV670 to RV770, rumors of it's monster specs were flying out of control, and they proved to be true.

The only saving grace Deneb may have is ability to easily overclock to the range of 3.6GHz, but even now most Q6600s will go over that mark. And don't even try and compare Deneb to Nehalem ... it will be absolutely no contest. Nehalem is simply two or three leagues above Deneb in terms of performance, and it will rape (or is raping, I should say) in orifices that do not exist naturally.