Quote Originally Posted by informal View Post
30%? Let's wait and see when it comes to percentages ,Nehalem is on average ~20% over Penryn and it had a whole host of improvements (SMT,IMC,QPI,Turbo...). SB has AVX and some relatively minor uarch tweaks to accompany it,no "big" things as those that Nehalem brought. And you expect 30% over Nehalem...
I didn't say that I expect 30%. I just asked you what you mean saying "revolutionary" architecture. And no way you can predict performance basing on some macro-block-diagram. Many micro-architecture improvements just not fit/reflected by such diagrams.