Bulldozers first screens

[chew*]

Do they really?

What is better: 5% higher IPC or being able to clock 10% higher, within the same power budget and die area?

In case of BD, if the single threaded workload is mainly integer, it will be able to benefit from an aggressive turbo (possibly doing speculative execution with the help of the second core of the module too), if the workload is FP (and not AVX), it will be able to utilize both halfs of the FlexGPU, running two instructions in parallel, if possible. I am therefore not particualry worried about single thread performance. Yet.

When AMD first came on the seen they never tried to be better, faster. What they offered was an alternative. Now the market is more "diverse" Diff cpu's for diff tasks.....I don't expect them to make a better cpu in that category, But i sure would like an alternative.