Kaveri is about 30 hours away from launching as of time of writing and some people such as myself are just itching for official benchies. This is pretty much AMD's Hail Marry to stay relevant on the x86 CPU coin. I understand the shit storm that will come with that statement but I have good things to say about it I swear.

I don't think Kaveri will change much on the desktop as GloFo's 28 nm process isn't able to clock as high in the same power envelope. That kinda sucks because I like my desktop rigs but oh well. However, the "upto" 20% IPC claim is appearing to hold true: Sauce. This is excellent news for their mobile lineup. This is where I see Kaveri really kicking ass should OEMs actually use the damn chips. Since mobile doesn't have to reach insane clockspeeds, Kaveri will easily outperform mobile Trinity parts. That and that alone would be enough but you also get a better iGPU and better GPGPU performance. Considering how well mobile Trinity did against the mobile i series at the time, this may very well save AMD. That said, I may pick myself up an A10 7850k for a 24/7 BOINC PC.

In short, mobile Kaveri is gonna be where it's at.

Addendum to address the people that will inevitably mention overclocking: According to the source above, 1.5 volts was needed to get to ~4.5GHz without the iGPU active. Better than Phenom II but christ does AMD need to get out of the WSA for GloFo.

Unrelated note: If anyone wants another member for their BOINC team, send me a PM or something. I do Rosetta, Milkyway, Einstein and SETI.