Quote Originally Posted by Dresdenboy View Post
This is only a statement about the effect of adding a second core. Power etc. seems not to be included here. So if only one cluster is being used, a thread could run ~11% faster solely based on this statement (it's not a fact, nothing is measured here). Further the saved power of the second cluster, L1D$ etc. and less utilization of the 256 bit FPU could leave some headroom to boost the single running cluster to maybe +30% overall.
You have a point. And of course, anything regarding actual performance is based on statements and nothing more at this point.
I mentioned the possibility of good single thread performance before, based on the shared resources like FPU focusing on only one core.

What do you think about turbo in bulldozer? Will it be there? And will it work on core level or module level? Personally I guess that it will be a turbo on core level further increasing performance in 1-4 threads.