Quote Originally Posted by xsecret View Post
...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 µarch ?
In that case I will calmly try to find my Kindle I put somewhere after I bought it and finally start reading books.

Joking apart. You make impression you already know the final performance when I look at some of your posts:

"Anyway, I just put my hand on a final, retail CPU with retail box. About performances, nothing changed. So, if this CPU isn't with "shipping performance", the fix will come post launch. And that would sux a lot."

"I have the same performances with the B2 chip since weeks and more important, the benchmarks published under NDA by AMD itself are really close to that."

"Bulldozer will be able to compete with Intel mainstream product in the 150-250$ range."

On the other hand there is also a lot of confusion you are bringing to this discussion as well, for example you said that "The issue with previous stepping seems related to power and only power, not internal µarch." which can be seen as there wasn`t any problem with BD microarchitecture whatsoever. But then you said "This said, a big problem in BD µarch will comes from the Integer unit." which on the contrary is a claim that contradicts your previous opinion.