Quote Originally Posted by -Boris- View Post
This is my point.

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

5 years of development don't guarantee .



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.



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.
while BD has 50% more cores (16 cores / 8 modules); 2 cores share some execution units and performance / core will drop once all cores are fully utilized (80% gain with a module / 2 cores compared to 100% with 2 completely seperated cores); i expect at least a 20% improvement with BD in single-threaded apps