Quote Originally Posted by terrace215 View Post

Make the same claim on a slide *without* the mm^2 part, and remove the item on your other slide that talks about minimizing single-threaded losses, and we'll talk again.
The minimizing single thread losses is in reference to a module design.When 2 threads run on the module there is a 10% penalty when compared a single thread running on a module(this implies actually that single thread performance will be better by those 10%).It has nothing to to with minimizing single thread losses compared to present design(aka 10h).They are simply stating that the integer core grouping in Bulldozer does not hinder much the "strength" of the single threads running in parallel on a module(10% is the penalty).