Quote Originally Posted by JumpingJack View Post
You were convinced the best case was only 2-3%...
Is there really a worse or best case for it? When you look back at the C2 it's out of order, could do more than four instructions a clock, had crazy branch prediction, and did 128bit SSE3 instructions in a single cycle.

I think back to when the C2 launched and the only thing that looked even remotely bad was the loss of micro-op fusion in 64bit mode (which Intel got running in i7). Other than that it looked devestating and it still does. Intel have stopped making light promises since 2006.

Between sandy bridge and bulldozer I think 2011 is going to be epic.