Quote Originally Posted by informal View Post
Yep,IB is ~5.7% faster than SB at the same clock(1.089x3.4/3.5) according to these tests from the unnamed guy. Not bad at all, but nothing special either. More important are the power savings and how they will affect the clocks at ULV segment.
Quote Originally Posted by Tom's Hardware
How will Piledriver get its projected 10 to 15 percent speed up? AMD says one-third will come from IPC improvements like structure size increases (so, three to five percent) and two-thirds will come from power optimizations that reduce consumption, enabling higher frequencies at a constant TDP (another six to 10 percent).
Just enough to keep Intel's IPC advantage over AMD offerings, it seems.
A nice speed bump over the SB processors they replace with ~20% TDP reduction. Not bad.