Dresdenboys' blog: AMD Bulldozer - Patent based research

[Dresdenboy]

I think a big problem in all these discussions about per core performance is, that looking at the whole processor's performance is not the best way to guess single core performance. With a hypothetical perfect scaling a 12 core BD based processor (the name of the core actually is "Orochi", BD was just the project according to JF), the per core performance could be higher than for MC, while the single core performance could be lower - because MC needs a higher single core performance to offset losses due to scaling.