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Re: First indication ... when this will be the final speed. Outch

From the article:

The Yonah demo systems demonstrated on the IDF work however typically with 1,47 GHz clock frequency.

Yonah launches at 2.16GHz, so expect up to a ~45% frequency improvement.

Here are the other scores mentioned in the article:
1.6GHz Dothan - 210
2.13GHz Dothan 770 - 286

That's +36% performance compared with +33% frequency, better than perfect scaling. Of course the Dothan 770 has a FSB improvement as well, but it looks like Cinebench will scale almost perfectly with frequency.

1.47GHz Yonah - 383
Est. 2.16GHz Yonah - 383 * 1.45 - 555

Your hypothetial K8-X2 has to run at 2.4GHz to score a 636 (not sure I agree with your math, though, since it assumes comperable hardware, which isn't necessarily true, besides coming from a base system with highly overclocked memory, etc).

Yonah is a 31W mobile part and at its launch frequency, it already performs nearly clock for clock with K8-X2. And Cinebench is typically a benchmark that performed poorly on the Pentium M. Let's see how the other benchmarks do, but already Yonah seems to be a dramatic improvement.

Ouch, indeed, but not for Intel.