Quote Originally Posted by informal View Post

Yeah,and Penryn is on average ~5% faster than Kenstfield,so it's 3-4% from Deneb. Deneb will receive a minor boost(~3%) from DDR3 ram due to dram prefetch in IMC + higher bw/lower latency to memory.
So then for IPC all the chips are equal and we should all be happy. Let's turn our attention to overclocking and power.