Quote Originally Posted by informal View Post
If you think that 50% "for the whole chip" is not much than you need a reality check.Many applications don't scale perfectly to many cores so extracting the "single core" perf. increase out of this generic average figure is pretty much pointless(not knowing clock speeds makes it even more pointless).Not to mention this is a conservative estimate and the MC platform is drop in compatible with the BD CPUs.
My experience with numbers like these is that they are in theoretical benches like SPECint and SPECfp. So i guess the performance estimate from JF is pretty close to 50% more theoretical performance rather than practical.
BUT, I also believe that these benches are on a clockspeed that might be on the conservative side.

So if all goes well we see higher numbers than these.