Quote Originally Posted by Hornet331 View Post
yup same here, i predict up to 10% IPC increasment for Deneb over Agena which will put it right inbetween Yorkfield and Kentsfield.

20-25% is just insane, maybe some rare cases (like spec_rate score, which to according to amd we all know is a "wide variety of workloads" *scnr* ) but most of the time i doubt we see more then 10%.

Remember that Deneb is still the 3 issue architekture that barcelona was and 3rd level cache cant fix everything, espcial when you already got a IMC.
I'm sure there will be wild debate as to where exactly Deneb falls on the IPC spectrum. I remember you doing the analysis on Agena a while back, but in the end there is no 'law' on what constitutes IPC and it really depends on the benchmark suite(s) used for comparison.

For example, in the recent 100 CPU roundup, Yorkfield is some ~30% faster than Phenom per clock: http://www.matbe.com/articles/lire/1...urs/page30.php