Quote Originally Posted by -Boris- View Post
My experience with numbers like these is that they are in theoretical benches like SPECint and SPECfp. So i guess the performance estimate from JF is pretty close to 50% more theoretical performance rather than practical.
BUT, I also believe that these benches are on a clockspeed that might be on the conservative side.

So if all goes well we see higher numbers than these.
Mr. Fruehe has made a slight clarification of the 50% number in a other thread.
I sincerely hopes that by major server workloads he doesn't mean syntetic
benchmarks, but real world workload. Will be interesting to see where we end up
in the end, and if AMD has been hyping to much.

Quote Originally Posted by JF-AMD View Post
Don't expect performance at hot chips - that is a discussion around architecture.

As for performance, the 50% gain is an aggregate estimation of major server workloads. Estimates tend to be conservative, there is little to be gained from being overly aggressive.