Quote:No, that's only when using only one core. With two I'm pretty sure it *almost* keeps up with phenom.
Plus, his clock is pretty good.
That doesn't make any sense. Both bulldozer and phenom II have more than two cores. 1 core on bulldozer vs. 1 core on phenom II should produce the same performance difference as 2 cores on bulldozer vs. 2 cores on phenom II. The performance per core is still the same. Unless I'm misunderstanding your implications?
When using 1-4 threads the per core and total performance of bulldozer is inbetween an athlon II and phenom II since each thread has its own module.
When using 5-8 threads the per core performance is inbetween an athlon X2 and athlon II since each pair of threads is sharing a module.
However once you factor in the fact that it has a higher clock rate than any of those cpus the performance per clock per thread can be as low as an athlon X2 when using 8 threads. It still is faster than an 8 core K8 (athlon X2) chip clocked at 4.0 GHz would be due to better sse performance and the ability for a single thread to access the resources of two cores in a module, it just doesn't scale particularly well in either direction.
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