Quote Originally Posted by FlanK3r View Post
maybe with Piledriver (I hope for so) will be finally right about higher IPC than K10.5
Doubtful; see paragraph 3:

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...fx,3043-9.html

It is still a path forward for AMD, but unless they're low-balling estimates, most of the improvements will come from process rather than architectural tweaks. BD is still a nice product for the price; it just doesn't make terribly good use of die space / transistors in its current iteration. I think it'll find a lot of success as a part of an APU if it's paired w/ a balanced GPU.