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Bulldozer is going to perform very well on higher resolutions when loads are hard on the CPU and not bottlenecked by the GPU. i5-2500 is optimized for light loads. Loads that are predicatble, single threaded 32 bit applications (games that has one heavy render thread). 2500 will probably win them all over bulldozer.

Complicated games that scales well and/or is using a lot av memory is going to be executed a lot better om bulldozer.
L3 cache on 2500 is 12 way associative and 6MB, it has a much lower hitrate comparde to 8MB 64 way associative on Bulldozer. Battlefield 3 seems to use loads of memory and 2500 will have more problem to scale then.
2500 isn't tuned to perform well on these type of loads.

Sorry sounds like total shenanigans if you ask me... Not here to kick up dirt but you are making these claims based on whats on paper and theoretical potential. Last time I checked game performance is largely dependent on IPC at 4 threads using *current* game engines (ie scaling past 4 threads in current generation engines is next to nothing ). Perhaps Frostbite 2 will be one of the first to change that tune. Surely things will progress as time goes on and newer more scalable engines are deployed. We will just have to believe it when we see it