Quote Originally Posted by Dimitriman View Post
Well if this is in fact true and single core/thread perf. of BD could be the same or possibly lower than MC, isn't this really dangerous for Desktop performance on these chips considering single thread perf. is quite important there?

How is BD supposed to compete with Intel's future gen. architecture with single threaded perf. lower than MC? I mostly doubt this will be true but hearing Dresdenboy comment on this possibility worries me.
This was just an argument against the per core performance analysis. What counts is how fast your apps run with what energy consumption and at which price. Also matters become more complex because of more advanced energy management methods etc. Recently I tried to scale back the Interlagos performance advantage to 4 and 6 cores (2 and 3 modules respectively) and got performance numbers comparable to 4.8 and 3.8 GHz quad- and six-core K10. OTOH I also already heard, that BD scales really well. This would mean somewhat lower numbers for the smaller core counts.

And then add an even more efficient turbo for the lowly threaded apps or even such ones, which don't utilize some of the units that much (e.g. FPU, caches).. We might see scalable caches, TLBs, FPUs, maybe even integer cores... A lot of such stuff has been patented. So I don't have problems to agree with informal here.

BTW I'll be offline for a week. So don't expect updates or answers during that time, except I find some internet terminal