Quote Originally Posted by [XC] Synthetickiller View Post
Makes me happy I haven't moved from 65nm. Never thought I'd say that 2 years later. Waiting for the next q6600 to rear its head. I guess 8 core 22nm?

I'm not at all surprised about real world results. i7 didn't even buy that much for most people and this isn't that much of a real improvement for 99% of people.
I hope Intel can get the clock vs clock speeds up a LOT, at least compared to 775 socket chips to give people a legit reason to upgrade to "next gen."
You will never see such big jumps in performance per clock 20-50% over a broad range, more like the stady increasment of 0-10% each new cpu generation with a declining tendency.

The thing to blame for that is x86, its already hard to keep a 3 issue architecture filled (amd) and got even harder when intel introduced C2 (4 issue).

Thats why you saw the return of HT, to keep the execution engies field.

X86 needs to die if you want to see huge gains in IPC or performance per clock again.