Quote Originally Posted by genetix View Post
First of don't like the design nor do I trust the bold assumption/statement made for bulldozer here (perhaps, just have to see myself as currently still consider AMD making same mistake than Intel). Also, I think HT calculation is a bit inaccurate considering ratio is closer to 165% not 118% (and not by being intel fanboy just been testing a lot of their cores), but even this 165% sucks as it's never stable for general application code for real cores. I wonder what would similar application pressure do to AMD bulldozer like server database pressure against high clock would it uberly fail like Intel's HT or still calculate correctly.

What ever happened to 'real cores' only strategy.
"Real cores" still exist. Instead of using up die space for real cores, AMD has managed to almost achieve the performance of two real cores by using shared resources. Think about it. You can achieve 85 to 90% performance of two real cores with 1 module but you're reducing logic die space, heat and power consumption. All good IMHO.