VR-Zone posted an article on the performance of the AMD Phenom II processor
>> AMD Phenom II Performance Uplift - VR-Zone
This slide shows the key areas of improvements for 45nm Phenom II over 65nm Phenom such as more IPC, higher frequency, more cache, and DDR3 support. There is a 5% cache uplift on the cache architecture and a 3% uplift on the core architecture. With all these innovations in place, AMD is touting a 20% performance boost...
>> AMD Phenom II Performance Uplift - VR-Zone