Quote Originally Posted by Apokalipse View Post
Let's say it did fail to meet expectations and actually is worse than K10.5, it would make no sense at all to actually release it. AMD would cancel the release and work on getting something out that actually is better.

The fact that they are releasing it means it will be better than K10.5. Either that or the management have no sense of reality at all.
Without benchmarks, we won't know how much faster than K10.5 it is, or whether it beats SB in IPC and/or single threaded performance; all we can know is it will be faster than K10.5.

If not, then the entire management at AMD should be given a visit by the nice men in white coats.
In well MTed applications it will be faster than X6 1100T,but this will happen only with 8150 running 3.6Ghz+ Turbo. It will be faster by some 5 to 20% max . In ST workloads or poorly threaded ones(1-4 threads),even with it's max. Turbo it won't beat Thuban ( at 3.7Ghz which is max Turbo for it).