Quote Originally Posted by savantu View Post
When you have 33% more cores, you better get 20% on average. Where is the miracle though?
According to AnandTech, a 16 core (2 × 8 core, like Magny Cours) is around 60 to 80% faster than a 12 core Magny Cours CPU in SPECInt_rate2006. Now you do the math. That's only Integer performance though, but floating point performance of a single module is rumored to also be faster than a dual core Deneb.

We'll just have to wait until Bulldozer is released before we start to draw any conclusions about its performance though. We don't want this to turn into another Barcelona or R600.