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[-Boris-]

So if you assume those slides are correct, we can say that FX CPUs EVEN with their so called flaws are right next to that best x86 architecture.

No, not at all. I say that this architecture have a hard time competing even in hand picked tests made by AMD themselves against mid-end processors of an older architecture not pushed at all. You can clearly see that Intel isn't pushing SB, it's capable of much higher stock clocks than it's running on, Intel has hardly pushed the launch of versions with more cores either. The three year old Nehalem architecture (wich launch was hardly hurried) is still superior to this latest "monster" from AMD. And that's on an older manufacturing process! And in this business 3 years is alot.

It's three years between the release date of Coppermine 733Mhz and Pentium 4 3.06GHz with HT. Not being able to beat a 3 year old architecture is a failure. It doesn't seem to be any IPC improvements to talk of either, something AMD promised us, an eightcore being beaten by a quad isn't success either.