Quote Originally Posted by STaRGaZeR View Post
That claim comes from the marketing team. Never, ever believe marketing teams, or even presentations. You'll see how the real thing performs when it launches. And yes, single thread perfomance is not looking good at all.

1 year of Bulldozer nonsense until it launches,
Yeah, marketing always overhypes things. I said Magny Cours was going to be 50-60% higher than istanbul. I was really wrong.

80-120% was more like it.

What people forget about any predicitions is that it does no good to overhype your products. If I said it was going to be 300% faster and it wasn't a.) I blow all credibility and b.) the product is viewed as a failure.

Fanbois will overhype (or downplay) any technology without any evidence of actual performance, but from a marketing side there is more on the line.

Overhyping a product could lead to charges that you are trying to pump up your stock price and nobody wants that. I have grown accustomed to sleeping in my own house and the luxury of eating normal food. I wouldn't look good in stripes.

I would argue that marketing people are probably the most reliable sources of information on these boards because they are the only ones actually bounded by the truth. And legal teams that get nervous about what they are saying.

If you take a look at everything that I posted about Magny Cours prior to the launch, you'll see that I was not misleading. Except about the total performance, but we had some upside with the final silicon and we kept that to ourselves for obvious reasons.

I can't speak to the other marketing people here, but if you identify yourself and clearly align yourself to the forum at to who you are and who you work for, there is a high probability that you are going to be honest, in most cases, conservative with your claims because you are seen as speaking for the company, even though you are posting on your own as an individual.

My 2 cents.

Also, don't forget that we have a boost technology. The 50% number is based on a fully utilized processor. If you were only running a single thread you would be looking at a very different uplift.