Bulldozers first screens

[Solus Corvus]

Just think about it this way: IPC/clocks can be used by much more apps (and more common ones too) than more cores.

Which apps are those though? Many apps are single threaded simply because CPU performance isn't critical to their use. And the apps that can use more cores will get a more significant boost out of that than out of extra ipc/clocks.

I don't know of any games that need more then an x6 and the same goes for emulation.
But when it comes to video post processing, the more cores and more mhz the better.
I've seen a couple avi synth stuffs that cripples the x6.

This goes along with my point. Do you game? Do you encode? Do you do both? If you do both which do you do more and which matters most to you? Etc.

Arguments about market share and what average computer users are doing doesn't necessarily have anything to do with me or you as individuals.