BD does pretty nicely in server workloads like business warehousing and transaction processing. It perform in between the 6 core ( 240mm^2 ) and 10 core ( 513mm^2 ) Westmere based Xeons. Of course, it throws 630mm^2 of die size in the fight, but it performs.

Server workloads, unlike desktop ones, like a lot of cores, even if individually they are relatively weak ( In BD sense, not ARM/Atom sense ). To almost match the 10 core Xeon EX behemoth is quite an achievement in my eyes.