Quote Originally Posted by -Boris- View Post
Exactly what I was thinking.
All their talk about multithreaded performance makes me doubt its singlethreaded performance.
We have said many times that single threaded performance will be higher than current systems. Don't expect benchmarks until launch.

But as we all move forward into 2011 and beyond, single threaded performance will become less relative as platforms get higher core counts and applications are written to expect 4+ cores as a minimum.

With both intel and AMD driving to higher core counts, expect software developers to find more ways to take advantage of those resources and expect them to rely less on clock speed. That trend has been happening already and it will only increase over time.