[NEW STUFF] Intel LGA1155

[kl0012]

i think sandybridge will be 2% faster than clarkdale on average... the important points will be lower power consumption, more features (avx,better turbo,tweaked igp) and price...

I think all the performance speculations are useless at this stage. I'll bet you have no appropriate background to estimate a performance bust from an additional L1 load port, much bigger loop detector buffer, lower cache latencies, larger L3 bandwidth (and other Sandy Bridge features which yet to be disclosed). What Intel does disclosed is a performance speedup (1.42x - 2.57x) for AVX vs. SSE for various FP workloads. Also confirmed on actual Sandy Bridge silicon.
http://software.intel.com/en-us/arti...lation-slerp//