Bulldozers first screens

[chew*]

It comes around to what I said about chip developer/designer INTENT.

Q: How many threads did the developers of the Intel chip with 4 hyperthreaded cores plan to optimally service?

Q: How many threads did the developers of the 8 core AMD chip, comprised of 4 cores, plan to optimally service?

In both cases the number of cores (or modules) is not as important as the number of threads the designer planned to support.

The problem still lies in the fact that because of this most reviewers are going to head to head it not based on pricing but based on flagship multicored parts.

Bulldozer will go head to head with gulftown, 8 threads to 12 threads yet the review will get spun as a 6 core part beating a 8 core part in multithreaded performance if 8 cores is not enough to beat 12 threads which based on my personal calculations is going to be close.

The flip side of this is they will also compare to a cheaper sandy part which by my estimations will lose in multithreaded.......however IPC wise at same clocks lets face it, sandy bridge is going to be a tough nut to crack.....