[dman]

My reading of the phoronix article suggests that Bulldozer does fairly well on the following tests. a) ffmpeg encoding b) parallel io c) x264 encoding d) compression e) mp3 encoding f) c-ray rendering g) smallpt

I will concede that I know virtually nothing of which workloads are representative of what percentage of the market.

[DrPizza]

I don't think most server systems are doing much in the way of MP3 or H.264 encoding.

Rendering is more or less equivalent to HPC. Different markets, but similar problem sets (lots of computation, minimal communication or dependencies between threads).

None of those are particularly relevant to typical server workloads; servers are doing things like querying databases, spitting out Web pages, running Java VMs, running virtualization software, that kind of thing.