Quote Originally Posted by freeloader View Post
IPC should be higher in all cases on a new architecture. No excuses.
It generally makes a lot of sense now that AMD delayed desktop and pulled in server chips. Because desktops depend heavily on IPC and single threaded workload, and if BD is very weak at both they need to tweak for maximum clocks they can to offset this. But for servers it is not as big of a problem so it became the new priority.

Had BD been a spectacular product it would be in our computers already. I doubt any delays were due to bugs, but rather due to attempting to get clock shigher to make up for poor ipc.