Quote Originally Posted by JF-AMD View Post
See, that statement is what gets people in trouble. Someone reads that statement and assumes 10% lower performance.

IPC will be higher than previous generation
Single threaded performance will be higher than previous generation
Then we phrase it like 11% more performance in single threaded apps due to the increased amount of resources the core gets when the other is idle.

Quote Originally Posted by generics_user View Post
ok now tell me how are they going to get 50% more performance with 33% more cores while dropping 10% single thread performance?

every single part of your comment is 100% wrong
10% more performance in one thread is compared to a module running two threads. 50% more performance with 33% more cores is a comparison with Magny Cours, both in multithreaded apps.

One is an number showing internal power differences, the other is a comparison with current processors.