Quote Originally Posted by Hornet331 View Post
Yes you dont buy 8c for singelcore performance, but you buy dual, and quads at consumer level.

Consumer app/game loads mostly are only partially threaded, already given some exampels.

I don't say bulldozer will have bad singel thread performance, but its a fact that for 1 thread they have less execution resources then a PII, and with the x6 we already got a x6 that clocks itself to 3,6ghz at singelthreaded loads. They(amd) have to move to a more agressive turbo mode to compensate for the lack of IPC in singelthreaded, partially threaded loads.
AT covered the issue with the "issue" in their article here. Basically BD will have higher single thread performance than Deneb class cores.