Quote Originally Posted by undone View Post
Good analysing. If it's true it will be a good sign for amd. Even if the Zambezi single core abillity can only reach Westmere, the higher frequency will be more than enough to fill the gap. 95w with 8 core @3.6-4.0ghz is awesome.
Such high frequencies would indeed be very promising for Bulldozer performance if true. Though I am bit worried that the high frequencies will end being Bulldozer's only defense against higher IPC efficiency of SB.
What I'm saying is that I'm hoping Bulldozer is able to compete with SB in terms of IPC efficiency aswell and not just by having a very high frequency. But I have a feeling it might end up that way. But as always we'll have to wait and see.

Selling CPUs with a potential frequency of above 4GHz should be great from a marketing point of view though. 4GHz is after all something rather magically to be able to pass, especially from a processor in stock configuration.