Quote Originally Posted by Kuroimaho View Post
Sb is an evolution of Neha it's not like bulldozer, so if in 2 years they could increase the performance with 20% I would be really surprised, with the new turbo maybe.
Well, both Nehalem and SB are tocks, in Intel's definition enough changes to warrant it being called a new uarch.

It's shares a distant resemblance with Nehalem, but inside just about everything is changes : data paths are wider, buffers are larger, new execution units, different latencies. I wouldn't be surprised they modified the pipeline, making it a bit longer so it can clock higher.