Quote Originally Posted by Chad Boga View Post
More like Westmere = Penryn, Nehalem = Conroe
id say more like nehalem = yorkfield

Quote Originally Posted by Chad Boga View Post
Not a new architecture and it is indeed a die-shrink, but just as Penryn came with a small IPC boost, so too should Westmere over Nehalem.
itll be so small you wont notice it... for benching itll help though i guess... at least in some benches.

but intel made it very clear not to expect much of a boost from westmere, sandybridge is supposed to be a big perf boost iirc.