AMD cuts to the core with 'Bulldozer' Opterons

[Kej]

So i'm hoping for the opposite to prove me wrong, that Bulldozer scales bad due to modules instead of cores,.....

We are supposed to have that as a yes, already.

IIRC Mr. Fruehe has stated somewhere that a module with two ALU-clusters that
AMD likes to call cores, scales to the given number 1.8 when fully loaded.
Where a "true" dualcore solution scales to the number of 2.0.

I've read this as if only one ALU/core is under full load, it's 100%. when two cores is fully loaded each core would be able reach 90% of its peak capacity
This due to the parts of the module that's shared.

Edit: Oh my! This thread runs fast