Quote Originally Posted by LesGrossman View Post
That's like saying that with K8 AMD concluded that couldn't match the higher cpu clocks of netburst and that would always have to throw more instructions per clock at Intel MHZ's.

Crysis 2 will support 8 cores, good luck with the single thread performance thing.
In that case, you'll have the 8-cored SB 2011 monster able to run one thread per core, while the 8-core Zambezi runs in full module-based-resource sharing mode. The result will not be pretty.

Again, single thread performance really translates as N-threaded performance, where N is either the number of cores in an Intel device, or the number of modules in a BD device. Because up until those thresholds, shared resources aren't really having much of an impact, and you are not really constrained much by power, etc.