AMD "Piledriver" refresh of Zambezi - info, speculations, test, fans

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33% faster than 1.6-2.3Ghz A6-3410 points to the level of A8-3850(2.9Ghz), everything looks right if true.

33% faster doesn't point to A8-3850 levels, more like to a model with default clock 2.2Ghz and 3Ghz turbo.
33% faster should be if the IPC is the same as BD with L3, but we don't know that yet, not even if they release mobile trinity clocked at 2.5Ghz or more.

Your discovery seems logical because there was already a news that this 9900 sample is nice compared to A8-3850.

I remember that article, but who knows what nice means to him, it could be the same performance, slower or even higher and the scores were under Linux not windows.
Let's say 2.5Ghz(3.2Ghz turbo) Trinity offers the same performance as A8-3850(2.9Ghz) then I would be totally surprised.
Honestly, I don't think that will happen, because Trinity without L3 would need ~10-15% better IPC than Llano to perform like that and the best ES 3.8Ghz version would perform like 4.2-4.4Ghz Llano, I think that's too good to be true when BD+L3 IPC is at least ~5-10% worse than Llano.