I'm so disappointed now that I would now be ecstatic if Zambezi would have the same IPC as thuban in single thread integer code ,just the same (now it is -20 to -10% with wild fluctuations) . It doesn't need to have IPC improvements at all. Be the same as K10 in single thread code,have 33% more threads that would behave the same (or close) as 8 Thuban cores/threads in MT workloads and have a slight OC headroom Vs Thuban. This would be awesomely better than what we have seen with FX4100 and FX8150,it would be a whole other level of performance.
But... wishes are one thing and reality is another.I'm afraid that reality is going to be pretty bad for us enthusiasts and not as bad for the average Joe's who will see 8 unlocked cores at 3.6/4Ghz on the black box and usually buy it without much thinking.
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