My question was exactly @Retr0spectrum's, the cost in performance, but I don't accept your answer (yet). I presume you mean intel and intel has a large transist

My question was exactly @Retr0spectrum's, the cost in performance, but I don't accept your answer (yet). I presume you mean intel and intel has a large transistor budget to burn, and quite like did to get that fastest perf. If you don't have to enforce strong ordering, how much extra a) actual speed b) transistor budget could you free up? (not a hardware guy