Quote Originally Posted by LesGrossman View Post
Crysis 2 will support 8 cores, good luck with the single thread performance thing.
Quote Originally Posted by god_43 View Post
honestly wtf cares about single thread performance? geez if ppl cared about it, they would not be buying dual-cores even. the whole nature of multiple cores is for multi-threading, anything else is fail!
It's a big mistake to think that a single thread performance doesn't matter. And I don't mean a single threaded programs. Just think about it - what is better -8 fast cores or 8 slow cores in a multithreaded program? Now if we speak about an upcoming high-end desktops then that would be 8x 4-wide 2 thread/core capable SB int cores vs 8x 2-wide Bulld int cores and 8x265 SB fpu vs 4x256 Bulld FPU. Yes, I'm avare about 16-core interlagos, but this probably is going to be a multimodule server oriented chip.