Quote Originally Posted by Hornet331 View Post
Well they also revealved that each int core only has 2x alus/agus, thats also new.

Hate me for what I am saying, but with this is pretty much given that SB will rape bulldozer in singelthreaded apps. Sure bulldozer will use turbo to offset this handycap, but so does SB.
Multithreading load on the other had will be very interesting, chances are good that amd can win a lot of server share back with this.

What I also wonder how this design will deal with apps that only have limited thread numbers, Lame mp3 encoding comes to mind or many games. For me it seems as long as the thread count is below the physical amount of cores, SB will be the winner and even PII will do better. But if we go higher, Bulldozer will really shows what it is capable off.

So it seems AMD fully aimed at server sapce with this desgin.
Yes alus/agus have been taken out but other additions have been made like 4 issue for one. As it is i dont expect PhII to be better in single thread's but sandy bridge is a different story.

Its quite possible that sandy bridge is very good at single threads but then again you dont buy a 8c sany bridge for its single thread performance.I am thinking since power gating is on a module bases most likely so will the turbo. That means that single/dual thread single module will profit from turbo with almost the same speed.