Quote Originally Posted by terrace215 View Post
Hans, I wouldn't put much faith in "much higher single core frequencies", relative to phenom II.

As for the IPC, I could believe it is higher, but having seen how they've trimmed the cores in certain ways, not that much higher.
1. Deeper pipeline. -> Higher clocks.
2. 32 nm Gate Last HKMG SOI. -> Higher clocks.
3. Inclusive cache hierarchy. -> Higher IPC.