AMD FX-8150 Bulldozer finally tested

[zalbard]

You see, matt... A lot of applications are starting to use 2 threads now, some use up to 4... The thing is, we have 8 threads available (to consumers) since 2008... And there are next to no applications around that can utilise them all now, almost in 2012 (we are talking about an average Joe, not a hardcore cruncher or professional 3D artist who already sits there with a 12 core machine). A lot of tasks are extremely difficult to multi-thread. So for the vast majority of applications single threaded performance will stay extremely important, as long as you have the necessary number of threads available (and let's face it, 4 thread CPUs are dirt cheap these days).