Of course new instructions are great, AES and some others that might even be useful.
However after all this time, PD should be better all round cpu.From these early results im just not seeing this.
X 6 overclocks to 4.0 4.3 (stable) and NB overclocks mostly in the 3.0ghz area (and NB clocks in thuban give it some great boost in some applications like games).All this at a MUCH lower power consumption than BD at ~4.7 which seems to be a stable clock for BD`s so im pretty sure that BD wasnt "not all that bad" .And it looks like PD wont clock higher or much higher, 5.0ghz on water looks like ~4.7-4.8 on air so maybe a small bump,maybe even not that.
What im hoping for is a LOT better power consumption figures,but if its going to chew up ~300W at its highest air OC, how its better than thuban ?Its unusable for day to day operation at this specs.
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This kind of situations SHOULD NOT HAPPEN,and adding insult to injury, in this test x6 did not have NB overclocked,and 8150 was consuming 50 watts more.Maybe PD will at worst match X6 and at best move long past it.
Phenom II architecture was introduced such long ago,that now AMD REALLY should be able to put something thats just better.In every regard.