Quote Originally Posted by undone View Post
BD is a buggy product, we have to regard it as a prototype rather than a chip. BD is another Willamette(Pentium4) IMO
If you take these problem fix into account then 10-15% is too less. But 20% stronger than Llano is somewhat surprise, cuz it put 8 core Piledriver to position that 20% stronger than 8 core Llano(or K10), oh wait should it was BD's goal?

edit: IPC or frequency is not important now, cuz we cannot figure out what BD SHOULD be, not to mention PD.
It's hard to look at Bulldozer as a prototype chip, they already had this at 45nm which was an 8-core Bulldozer. They didn't launch it and instead focused on a 32nm part. AMD f**ked up, big time.

AMD aren't doing these projections based on "how it should've been", but for what it is today. So it is 10-15% based on the consumer products in the FX-series out today. So the increase is over todays Bulldozer. But with process maturity the overall increase in performance should be more. I'd say process maturity should account for the biggest increase in performance over FX-8150 and a coming FX-8170, since AMD have been open about that they aren't happy with where GlobalFoundries is today.