Quote Originally Posted by TheBreezyBB View Post
If it is real, Then AMD are shooting themselves in the foot, by releasing an under-performing CPU, that is not what everyone wanted to be! I for one don't think this is real.
Do you think AMD will be releasing a chip they call high-end performance desktop CPU and which brings back the FX name again if it was slower than the predecessor? One hint about performance is the rumored retail price.Just compare this price of roughly ~300$ with Thuban 1100T price of 190$.IF you count in that usually the new stuff is priced a tad bit higher ,the difference is from 40% to 57%. Performance should be in line with this.

For reference look here:
http://www.hardware.fr/articles/778-14/moyenne.html

AMD needs a chip that is 38% faster than Thuban @ 3.3Ghz,on average, to take the performance crown (until SB-E comes). I believe they will do just that(as literary have the chip that is around ~1.30x-1.5x faster than Thuban in client workloads).