Quote Originally Posted by AKM View Post

Ouch, this doesn't look very good, BD 8C being positioned slightly lower than 4C Core i7, though I guess that makes sense, most desktop workloads use 4 cores at most, and isn't one SNB core as big as 2 BD cores? So it'd be a miracle if per core perf. would be close, turbo can mitigate that somewhat but not enough. I hope they do better in server, that's hugely more important for AMD.
no, 1 SB core with SMT is ~18.4mm˛ while each bulldozer module is 30.9mm˛

2x IB (22nm) cores with SMT should be smaller than a BD module (2x ~13-14mm˛)