Quote Originally Posted by -Boris- View Post
12.5% per core is actually less than I would expect from just shrinking Phenom II to 32nm. And Phenom II should be capable of around 50% more cores on 32nm too.
There is no such a number like 12.5%. This was a result of incorrect direct calculation... You forgot scaling and frequencies. So you don't know about single core IPC. Also desktop BD will have less cores, and it will result in different scaling numbers.
Also you speak of 16-core BD in line with Phenom. This is wrong again.
Interlagos is not suppose to be clocked high rather it has to have more cores and lower frequency to fit server market performance needs most.
Example: a top phenom is 3.4 GHz. Top server MC is 2.3 GHz. Compare Intel's top desktop and server chips yourself...