Quote Originally Posted by Mechanical Man View Post
<3GHz, Maybe 2,6GHz. Also, i expect IPC gain to be atleast 10% in integer code, more in float when running "normal" application, one that does not have only floating point calcs. That kind of code would be better to be ran on gpu's anyway.
Let's say 2.6GHz.

2.6GHz/2.2Ghz(MC)*16/12(cores)*1.1(IPC)= 1.733

Which means BD should be 73,3% faster than MC at least in INT code. I'd assume their performance estimates are based on Spec_Int_Rate and Spec_FP_Rate.