Quote Originally Posted by JF-AMD View Post
If you are going to say that there is a 20% compromise because we have shared resources, then you have to say that Intel has an 85% compromise from their shared architecture. They share execution units and HT gives you a ~14% integer increase.
What happened to power in those statements? Does performance per watt suddenly not matter?

Or could it be that the adding most of a second integer core actually uses a nice chunk of power when adding that 80% performance?

Is it possible that the thing to look at would be the performance/W improvements that the 2 different degrees of resource-sharing provide? Nahhhhhh.