AMD presents "The Bulldozer Blog"

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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.

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.

Actually he replied to you:

Actually, I can't get into specifics, but I would be willing to bet that my processor actually performs better at half load than anyone here would ever expect.

It will be very interesting to see a 16-thread SB with 8 active threads vs. a 16-thread interlagos with 8 active threads.