Quote Originally Posted by Chumbucket843 View Post
i highlighted any structure (for SB) that has been custom designed. note the SRAM arrays in the top. there are 12 large ones with 8 structures each.

it's ~ 9mmx5mm with pads on one side and some other logic which is approximately 7 mm2.
could it be the video transcoding logic intel talked about recently?

Quote Originally Posted by Hornet331 View Post
Well at least we know now francois wasn't exaggerating when he said we get a C2 like performancejump.
sigh... right
even IF sb would get us a similar ipc boost as c2, it wouldnt be a c2 like performance jump cause we are much less cpu limited these days.

but i have to say, im impressed... if those numbers are true, and turbo was really enabled for all other cpus and for sb it was disabled... then sb looks very impressive indeed...

that would make sb almost 25% faster compared to 1156 and 1366...
im still sceptical though as ive heard single digit ipc boost figures from other sources so far... intel definately has my attention after this preview though