What to Expect From AMD at ISSCC 2011

[Mechanical Man]

Loses most of the time to a 1.5GHz K8 based dual-core:

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/328?vs=116

It's around 67% of a 1MB L2 version of Conroe at 1.6 GHz:

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/328?vs=70

Naturally that 90% did not refer to conroe. AMD surealy compared that 90% to their own Athlon II processors. That afterall most likely is mainstream in market pc's.