AMD has announced they no longer care about x86 performance. So do not excpcet Bulldozer to be a superpi champion. Most benchmarks will probably put it behind X58 for single threaded.
They are focusing more on APU and multi threaded performance now, so Bulldozer will be looked at as more of a "whole system" deal than just a CPU. RW testing will show it to be a stellar system, but "the norm" benchmarks will probably not show it to be so.
Just my thought based on Llano APUs performance.
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