Quote Originally Posted by Helmore View Post
And what if AMD could clock an 8 core (4 modules) Bulldozer at 5 GHz while only consuming 95 Watts? And it does this while having about 95% of the IPC of AMD's current Phenom II chips. That's what I'm getting at. IPC is only part of the story.

I'm not claiming that Bulldozer will be anything like that, just that there's more than just IPC to getting great single threaded performance.
Sry this is whichfull thinking, without abandoning x86 thrers no way the can achive 5ghz with a modest thermal envelope and that much cores.