Quote Originally Posted by saaya View Post
itll have better turbo modes, hopefully, so that will help with single threadded apps... somewhat...
the next real ipc increase will be haswell, 22nm... thatll be a mayor step... and bulldozer from amd, which will probably come out first, but itll be on 32nm so even if its good intel should catch up pretty fast with haswell on 22nm...

Shame though, my intel system is already at 4ghz. If turbo is the only major increase then I'm already doing it manually.


So, Haswell vs Bulldozer. I've heard the name bulldozer bantered about since I joined xs ....many years ago. I assumed it was an ancient architecture of the P3 era. Must have been the AMD forum clutching at straws over the failure of phenom 1.