Contrary to this, AMD's current strength is extremely multithreaded wordloads, and their single-threaded performace is rather slow. http://www.anandtech.com/sh

Contrary to this, AMD's current strength is extremely multithreaded wordloads, and their single-threaded performace is rather slow. http://www.anandtech.com/show/6396/the-vishera-review-amd-fx8350-fx8320-fx6300-and-fx4300-tested/2 http://www.anandtech.com/show/6396/the-vishera-review-amd-fx... This shows at least part of what I mean - Vishera (slightly lower clocks than what was just announced) loses to Ivy Bridge by a mile in most single-tread tests, but nearly ties in multithreaded ones.