I think people need to be reminded of the performance delta between GC and GM in ST. If the leaks are correct then Golden Cove has a ~35% PPC and ~35% clock advantage over Gracemont, leading to a ~80% ST potential performance lead for the big core.
11900K gets what, 1800 points in GB5? So Golden Cove is going to get 2450? Divide that by 1.8 and Gracemont at 3.9GHz gets 1350.
That would be nipping at the heels of Cortex X1's performance per clock! I'd be happy for them if it's true. Basically little over A75 to X1 in a single year.
1600-1800 Cinebench R20 for four, SMT-less Gracemont cores being a possibility? Holy crap! Asus Pentium Gold N7005 ITX would be a really nice board!
40-45% is starting to look like Piledriver to Zen jump.
Well presumably, Intel has been sitting on Alder Lake for a long time now. The 10nm fiasco obviously created massive delays in their roadmap.
This makes sense from a Core perspective, but not Atom. Goldmont and Goldmont Plus weren't delayed, and they are both 14nm, the upside of purposely putting value cores on an older process. Goldmont Plus is late 2017, so at the earliest they would have had Tremont ready by Alderlake timeframe.
Sure some portions may have been delayed, but looks like we'll have a substantially better Atom CPU with it.
I can't say Icelake of 2017 is the same as Icelake of 2020. They likely had to change aspects of the architecture to fit with the details of the actual 10nm process.