Quote Originally Posted by informal View Post
Zambezi core in FX4100 has exactly 25% lower SIMD/fp performance than Deneb core... Fits kinda well with that 80% claim from the slides.
But that figure is not compared to Deneb, it's compared to a single thread in the module.
Quote Originally Posted by informal View Post
But AMD said they expanded the unit and some other improvements so that SIMD workloads at least won't be slower than family 10h. We see that they missed the mark by 25% since it takes Phenom @ 3.3-3.4Ghz to match FX4100 @ 4.2GHz. Pretty disappointing IMO. Even in single thread department Zambezi's "mighty 256bit" FPU fails to beat Deneb core from 2008. Wtf is going on AMD?
I'm gonna say this isn't final performance.