Quote Originally Posted by kl0012 View Post
I'll believe when I see it. I have some doubts about these tests. The max int instruction throughput for bobcat at 1.6 Ghz is 3.2 GIPS (limited by two decoders). I am very sceptical that bobcat can reach nearly max instruction throughput in this synthetic test (while conroe & athlon64 can't). Still very impressive if true.
Even if it had, say, 8 decoders it wouldn't be any faster. It could in theory run at 12.8 "GIPS", but in practice it wouldn't run any faster(only in cases it would actually exploit ILP > 2, which I believe is quite rare with the given code).

But haters gonna hate.