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These quotes from JF's FAQ seems to confirm my anticipations, or lack of there of:



The way he try to mock people who care about IPC and single thread performance makes me believe he is trying to justify bad performance in these areas. We know frequency range, so IPC is important! And single thread performance is important to everyone who isn't building a server. It doesn't matter if you have a million cores, if single thread performance matches a K6-2 you won't be able to play any games today, just using windows would suck

IPC will be low, maybe lower than Phenom II, and that goes for single thread performance as well.

What logic are you using?

Since we know the frequency range you should also know the fastest BD has a rather big frequency advantage compared to intel i7 series.

1 thread -> +400MHz (10%)
2 thread -> +500MHz (13.5%)
3 threads -> +600MHz (16,6%)
4 threads -> +700MHz (20%)

From that point the differences get smaller between them.

ipc was said to be higher then K10 multiple times, so it should be somewhere between C2D and infinity.
if ipc is lower then FX4 and FX6 have no reason to exist. since the rumoured FX4 and FX6 models have no clockspeed advantage compared to deneb/thuban.

Also it is impopssible to deduct ipc/application/clock for BD from current known designs.