Quote Originally Posted by JumpingJack View Post
I believe on average, if I were guessing ... 10-15% depending on work load, with some apps maybe as low as 5% and some as high as 20%.

Based on what we know so far, the lower latency cache, Charlie mentioned an extra load port, which means a 5-issue design, and stuff we don't know yet. Given they are likely to keep HT alive in SB, I would also suspect they deepened the reorder buffers and increased the size of the TLBs in key places.

Memory intensive apps will benefit the most, and with an aggressive turbo scheme, both single threaded and multithreaded should see a nice pop.

Jack
so you think there wont be any apps that see no perf/clock improvement on sb? i think thats overly optimistic...

even if its 15% faster per clock, thats still not a reason to upgrade... 15% higher ipc PLUS higher clocks, PLUS turbo, PLUS power savings in idle and few cores loaded... that would really be something you cant ignore... it would turn all current laptops into outdated "last year" equippment