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Yes it is.
If you take a look at the architecture itself, it's not hard to see that BD's IPC will not merely match K10.

As far as core scaling goes, when both BD cores in each module are being used, AMD themselves said multi-threaded performance would increase by 80% (remember 80% more than 100% is 180%)
And that's not compared to K10. That's compared to doing one thread on one BD core.

Well yeah, it is debatable in that way that if you wont check it yourself you wont know for sure.However the guy is known for having its connections and getting ES stuff, while he is disliked by most guys here, no one "in the know" dismissed tha fact that he gets samples.They are even irritated because he breaks NDA`s and still gets samples.
Guy has pictures of samples, guy has sold one , he provided many screenshots.What more do you want ?

As for the scaling, as you said, its not relative performance to phenom II but to BD itself.So it doesnt give us any IPC indication, and besides that as ive said before, new instructions and turbo should give big boosts.We should know more in the weekend.


@repman, you also have 2,3,4 core phenoms now so i dont get your point.It still would be big move upwards ,4-6-8 higher clocked parts with new instructions cheaper to build instead of 2,3,4,6 slower bigger chips.Im not saying thats the case, im saying it would still make sense to produce them instead of phenoms.