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To: wbmw who wrote (247656)	2/12/2008 4:43:07 PM
From: Ritz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

It really does not matter whether Phenom fails because of clockspeeds or IPC, the bottom line is that it is a miserable and total failure. You can't just chock it up to AMD's inferior 65nm process either. Brisbanes are up to 2.8GHz stock and best case 3.6-3.7 overclocked, while Phenoms are at 2.3 stock and 3.0-3.1 absolute max overclock. Basically the entire, years long, K10 development effort resulted in a 10-15% increase in IPC and a 15-20% decrease in clocks, resulting in equal or lower single thread performance. AMD could have stuck 2 Brisbanes on an MCM and gotten equal or better performance to Phenom. The entire design effort was money time and goodwill thrown into the toilet and flushed. It resulted in no benefit whatsoever. Phenom is an utter and complete failure.