Quote Originally Posted by haylui View Post
Anyway, BullDozer is confirmed to have lower single threaded int performance compared to K10.
I dont see anything there.
If you refer to the 2pipe design, that does not mean much. K10 has 3pipes, yes, but the front end is inferior to Bulldozer's, i.e. K10's 3 pipes are used seldom.

If I have to choose between a 2pipe Design with an average load of 90% and a 3 pipe design with a useless 3rd pipe, I would choose the first one ;-)

It would save die space and power, too. Furthermore, due to simplicity of the design, it could increase clock headroom, too.

Actually I think that is BD's biggest advantage. Because of the shared Front-End, it could be more sophisticated and complex than usual.

That will yield in a better utilization of the back-end.

So far - with the litte available information - the design looks quite stream-lined to me, I like it. It looks efficient and fast. I just wonder how much of the "information" will be true in the end.