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Sorry, but this doesn't wash at all.

AMD positions 8 core BD`s to 4 core SB`s , so thats where comparisons have to be made.Its more like 4 modules vs 4 cores.Or 8 cores vs 8 threads.

AMD will position itself against a comparable Intel chip. The amount of cores/modules is irrelevant compared to the results that it gives.

One AMD core is much smaller than one SB core.So its pretty much destined to have lower ipc.

That statement is actually quite incorrect. SB cores are larger because of the overhead of HT, while BD can be relatively smaller due to the sharing of resources wihin a single module. IPC in this respect has nothing to do with core size.

Thus it would be expected of them to reach higher clocks.

This is down to the pipeline really, not the size of the core.

And its been known for some time that BD is architectured as high speed cpu.So its not unreasonable to expect it reach higher clocks.
I hope for fully customizable turbo.If i can set 8 cores to 5ghz, then maybe 5.5ghz in single/dual threaded work.That should help.But its yet to be known how turbo v2.0 works.

True, the BD cores are known to be higher in speed, due to the longer pipeline. However, this is a brand new chip and is an unknown with regards to speeds reached. I highly doubt you'll be seeing 5ghz in ST, let along MT.

I think you're taking the BD chip as some sort of messiah for AMD. What it is is a very capable MT chip. If its IPC is anywhere close to Intel, and the speed of the chip can exceed intels offering, then they'll have a good solid chip for the next 4/5 years to work with. I am not holding my breath on this, as I still see AMD as a low-med type of company (GPUs of course a separate issue). I do think it's MT performance will be quite spectacular due to the amount of cores it can have. Desktop wise, I still feel Intel will have the upper hand (something that a lot of fanboys will find quite distasteful to hear).