Quote Originally Posted by Sn0wm@n View Post
your point is???
This is my point.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/846/7

5 years of development don't guarantee .

Quote Originally Posted by gosh View Post
Hexacores at 2 GHz ?
New games that need performance will take advantage of parallel execution.
Of course, but more cores will never be more important than more speed per core. A chip with 50% more cores will never perform as good as a chip with 50% more speed per core in games.

And that is why it's so important to have better performance per core in bulldozer.

Quote Originally Posted by JF-AMD View Post
If you want to refer to any performance estimate for bulldozer, there is one official one: 50% greater total throughput than Magny Cours.

We won't be saying anything else for the forseeable future.
12% per core is really weak. That won't even compete with i7s from 2008. That isn't even as big as the difference between Phenom and Phenom II, or between Athlon 64 and Phenom. Or even Xp to Athlon 64. I don't think I've seen such a weak boost in a new architecture from AMD ever.

I really hope that there are bigger performance gains than that.