I've seen 1.5-1.6x speedups in an image codec, and Quicksort - despite any frequency reduction. As others are saying, it really is a nicer and much more complet

I've seen 1.5-1.6x speedups in an image codec, and Quicksort - despite any frequency reduction. As others are saying, it really is a nicer and much more complete instruction set than AVX2.