I'm not 100% sure that Piledriver will have a much higher IPC than K10.5. Strictly based on rumours we've heard that the 15% figure will be from tweaks to the core (5%) and frequency gains (10%). The 5% due to tweaking is very much appreciated, but the 10% from frequency optimizations is questionable given the problems facing Global Foundries. It's too bad AMD wasn't releasing Piledriver right now and then working up from there.
Let's all hope that AMD/Global Foundries can figure out their problems quickly.![]()
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