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What's 'reviewers guide'? If you're telling us that coolaler is something special, why they even have no NDA in hand.(NDA is not lifted)

Have you seen Radeon 6870/69xx launch slides? The performance comparisons(versus competing products from competitors and their own previous gen products),uarchitecture details,pricing strategy ,all made by manufacturer and sent to press as briefing material and guide for their own review .

And no,coolaler is nothing "special". Nor is vrzone for that matter. I'm just telling you that the level 8120 is showing in the leaks is close to what it will be showing when it launches. And this level is pretty dismal ,at least compared to all marketing talk we had and previous projections(by AMD themselves) that showed MUCH higher performance.
Bulldozer is supposed to be "multithreaded beast" . In benchmarks that utilize all the threads(or cores if you like),like cinebench for example,there is no sign of the beast. It's tamed. The "double-sized"(compared to K10) and "very-powerful" 256bit FPU ,even in single thread workload such as Cinebench10's single core test mode,is failing against Thuban's one core. It has even higher Turbo on its disposal in that case...