Your argument makes perfectly sense! I see you are right, BD is useless for desktop and has no selling point.Originally Posted by Micutzu
Or... Can you please stop attacking my choice of words and present some arguments for your point of view?
Could you point out where I am wrong? Your arguments against Bulldozer works perfectly fine at a "traditional" 8-core. You seem to think that just because it got 8 integer cores it isn't good for poorly threaded applications and only is an alternative when you are running lots of threads all day long. Do you say the same about 4C/8T i7s? The difference isn't all that big you know. We are not talking 8 complete cores dragging down frequency and low thread performance as you may think. We are talking 4 modules with beefed up FPUs and extra integers. With advanced energy saving and Turbo these few percent extra die space won't hold the cores back much in frequency in low threaded situations.
The whole point with Bulldozer is that it's flexible and with just little extra diespace can run twice the amount of threads. And in the same time can utilize almost everything when running few threads.
Is 4C/8T i7 just hunting rare scenarios? Or is it simply a good quad core with some extra die space made to make it more capable in the increasing amount of multithreded applications that is out there? Would your argumentations against Bulldozer sound the same if it was marketed as an quadcore with extended HT?
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