AMD presents "The Bulldozer Blog"

[terrace215]

So you skip everything else I have written

When BD's advocate downplays the importance of its single-threaded performance, I take the hint.

So either you disagree with this point, or you don't see that relative single-threaded performance is a nearly perfect indicator of relative 50%-of-fully-threaded performance. It is only past 50% that the big design differences (modules vs HT) start to kick in. And until 50% we don't really need to worry that power or memory bandwidth is going to be all that constraining, and besides, they're on fairly even ground with those factors.

I'll assume you do understand the latter, so I guess you are arguing that BD is going to be very close to SB in single-threaded performance.

I don't buy it.