rvborgh

indeed. i am referring to things like this: where overall gains seem to be to tapering off.

i could be wrong (i'm just a layman) when it comes to these things but i really doubt that there is too much low hanging fruit with AMD64... there is only so much parallelism (ILP) that exists in the code to be exploited. Perhaps someone more informed can correct, but i would think that at some point this means that Intel and AMD are converging to the same core integer performance. Intel has just gotten there faster. i do wonder if that is why despite throwing a lot more transistors at it, single thread performance seems to have tapered off these past few generations for Intel.

Rumors are that the first samples of Zen were supposedly at Haswell level performance... http://seekingalpha.com/user/19326301/comments "What I heard from some AMD guys is that they already start testing "their new cpu" in the lab and seeing haswell level performance."

here's a quote for you: http://seekingalpha.com/user/19326301/comments "What I heard from some AMD guys is that they already start testing "their new cpu" in the lab and seeing haswell level performance."

Yes, i did some benchmarking when i was doing BIOS tuning on my quad opteron setup at 3.0 GHz. CB 11.5 and CB R15 i hope folks don't mind the noise... that was back when i was still waiting on 2 additional Noctua HSF for the top two processors. EDIT: processors are 4 x Magny Cours ES (48 cores - unlocked clock multipliers) running in a SuperMicro H8QGi-f. These are totally stable at 3.0 GHz... and 1.175 volts. i can run it higher but wattage at 3.1 GHz slightly exceeds 1000w at times when running the benchmarks.

R15 - ranges from 3104cb to 3112cb (@ 3.0 GHz) (this was prior to my installing the last two Noctua coolers - so a bit loud Cinebench 11.5 - 38.26 (@ 3.1 GHz) - i normally run the machine at 3.0 GHz (scores 37.21 at that speed) its completely stable at 3.0 GHz at 1.175v.... (ie hundreds of runs through IBT). i don't normally run anything higher than that as i don't know how much juice socket G34 can take (seeing about 900w at the wall during Cinebench 11.5 runs)

For now... K10 (Istanbul die) Socket G34 based 61xx series Opterons... of the unlocked ES variety... running at 3.0 GHz... in a quad socket motherboard. For productivity stuff... its about 5-10 times faster than the i7-4770 at work. For games... about the same as Phenom X6 1090T, although i am looking forward to getting Win 10 installed to see how DirectX12 does with all these extra cores. The only downside is power consumption )))