Quote Originally Posted by Mats View Post
Yeah, 3.2 GHZ is a bit low, and 30 % turbo seems a bit high to me. But we're comparing it with todays K10 which wasn't designed for six cores and turbo from the beginning, yet it still got it today.
BD's 32 nm and power saving features may be enough for that high turbo. On the other hand, Intel only goes 400 MHz turbo with their upcoming i7 2600.
And power usage isn't the only limitation to high frequency. Even if you have the headroom power wise you can't just clock higher. If that were the case it would be possible to clock an Intel Atom to insane performance.

So even if you give one module four times as high power headroom it will not necessary improve turbo capabilities much more than just 50% more headroom would.