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The article doesn't list specifics and I find it difficult to believe Ivy Bridge will be 20% faster than Sandy Bridge when Sandy Bridge is only 15% faster than Nehalem despite being a whole new architecture! Ivy Bridge is just a die shrink (which should make it cheaper and cooler, so overclocking potential might increase). They'll almost certainly beef up the IGP and probably add some new instructions and performance tweaks but 20%? 5-10% is more likely IMO.
Exactly same possition mate, I'm going to wait too but it's killng me.
Keep in mind its likely that AMD will have EIGHT core Bulldozers for around or maybe even less than a 2600k, thats fully overclockable, on a vastly cheaper(and working
Overclocking should be godly, gate first IS better than gate last, but gives lower yields, bad for AMD, the chips that work will be better though. Its got a slightly longer pipeline so the design lends itself to MUCH higher clockspeeds than Phenom's do.
But the main point here is, no one knows what Bulldozer bits will be seen at Cebit, so its not worth talking up into crazyness yet.
Firstly its VERY common for companies to show only reporters, or bigwigs in the industry new parts behind closed doors. Cebit has a public and a private side to it, some products are on show for everyone, some are behind closed doors NDA covered briefings only.
All we know is Bulldozer should be at Cebit, we have no clue if a single Bulldozer piece of information will end up shown to the general public. We have no idea if there will be benchmarks and we have no idea if anyone will get to use a system with one in.
As for the 50% stuff, its SO vague and we don't know really know what its in with a lot of fake slides about.
AFAIK the 50% thing was said AGES ago and was first mentioned in regard to the server space, where switching out a 8 core server chip would beat a server chip by 50% quite comftably as a drop in replacement. Server loads vs home use loads can be incredibly different.
, if your only interested in single-threaded applications, why not get a cheapish i3 or the likes and overclock the nuts of it, should give decent SuperPI times..?
