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Then you need to take it with a grain of salt, and be skeptical of it's legitamacy, as it could be faked. All it takes to fake that is pshopping the screen shot, putting it as the desktop and hiding icons/task bar (or just end task on Explorer). From there, take a pic with the camera and submit to ImageShack :P




My reading seems to have led us to believe they will show up as two threads per core, but that would mean an 8 core = 16 threads. I don't see AMD going about it that way, so I might be understanding it slightly wrong, and it is 1 core = 1 thread, but each core processes as if it was two threads due to the split architecture. Still, I'm 98% sure ONE module = TWO physical cores, which is why an E350 Bobcat is dual core and only uses one module

I don't like the comparison of AMD to Intel either, but we've just got to look at it on the scale of performance. If it turns out an 8-threaded Intel performs as well as an 8core AMD, then what are we left to say? :\

Your best bet would be Valencia for desktop, as it'd be cheaper since you'd only be going with a C32 board instead of G34. It'd only be a max of 8 cores still, but hopefully the memory performance and HyperTransport can make up for that a bit If you've got the cash though, I suppose you could liken the 12/16core Interlagos like the Extreme i7 chips, and G34 to the x58 since the costs will be close.



Again, I'm pretty sure it's 2 physical cores, sharing only the 64KB of L1 Instruction and 2MB of L2 cache per module. The L3 is shared amongst the whole CPU, same as it has been so far.


I'm very open to being correct though if I'm misunderstanding anything! I only want to spread the facts, not misconceptions (be that my own or read from others insisting they are facts).

Woah, woah woah there are some wrong things in this post....(To my knowledge!)
E350 is Fusion yes...but it doesn't have this module thing going on. Core structure is closer to what we have seen in the past.
ONE Module in Bulldozer does include TWO (Physical, if you can call it that and) LOGICAL cores, yes...AMD has already stated, the 8 core Desktop model will include four "modules"

Here is some more (fudge) to speculate on if one wishes to XD