Quote Originally Posted by Macadamia View Post
K10 actually went forward in "all-roundedness" (mostly multi-threaded but single threaded perf. went UP at least), and all it got was bashing by basically the same people rejoicing now. I'm gonna have to call you (and the others) out on this.

K8 scaled like C2Duo BTW. About the same underpinnings. It's just C2Q that started to show signs of fatigue with 4 cores.
Well , K10 went all around in getting slower than the competition.It's one thing to offer the best single thread performance and offer the best multithreaded performance ( which looks to be the case for Nehalem ) and perform only "good enough" like the K10.

Basically , K10 had poor single thread performance ( relative to the competition and even to the K8 if we go by absolute numbers ) , better scaling , but that didn't help in avoiding the final outcome.