Quote Originally Posted by AliG View Post
Simple math. I just explained it.

How stupid do you think AMD engineers would have to be to design a product that's less efficient than the previous one in our current market? Today everything in servers is about performance/watt, they'd have to be brain dead to implement an architecture that requires more power to accomplish the same task.

Seriously, I don't understand why some people think Bulldozer will be slower than k10.5. It's mind boggling that anyone but a troll would try to spread these rumors.
Bulldozer looks to be all about through-output oriented.I think it will be weaker in single threaded integer apps than current K10.5s since the INT units were simplified.
For FP, a cluster will beat a single core K10.5 but it will be similar to a double core K10.5

So while in commercial apps it will be great, in desktop ones it won't be any miracle.
That's my 2 cents.