My biggest disappointment with Zambezi was seeing how poor the single thread performance is, especially compared to the previous generation (Deneb/Thuban) chips. I can accept that the multi-threading capability is a bit ahead of its time, but it’s unacceptable that a new cpu will not perform as well as the ones it replaces in the majority of current (single-threaded) desktop applications. I also do not see how this can be improved without a major re-design of the architecture – the predicted 15% improvement with the next iteration (PileDriver) is still somewhat short of what it needs to be
