Quote Originally Posted by informal View Post
The point is that pure single thread fp performance is going to be higher than MT fp performance(divided by number of cores). On top of that comes turbo mode.
Well again only for theoretical maximum, it would be very difficult to have 4x micro-ops from a single thread in order to feed all 4 FPU pipes.

Remember the design is been optimized for multithread/multitask and not single thread like Intel's Core architecture (per core).