Quote Originally Posted by Solus Corvus View Post
As for all this arguing over what defines a core, it's garbage. You guys are arguing over a fuzzy term that is more useful to the marketing team then the engineering team. What matters is how the processor as a whole performs with various workloads, not the number of cores. Cores is just a term to plaster in big letters on the box to sell to people who are too clueless to do actual research before impulse buying it. Just like GHz was in the P4 days.
I disagree with this statement. No matter how much raw power a CPU can deliver, the power is nothing if software can't use it in real world application (and without too much work for devs). Threading is a mess and an high time-consuming task for developers, so single thread performance and core count have a major impact in real world performance.

This said I wonder what u guys will think if benchmarks published after the NDA are similar to actual ones ? Reviewer sucks ? AMD issue with a TLB or anything else like for first phenom ? crappy ľarch ?