Re: Reread the Article
If you want to go down that rabbit hole things will get very messy. AMD did mightily screw up it's design and modules typically perform like 1.5 real cores but do manage to issue multiple instructions per clock. The problem is more that those ops then get stalled waiting on the shared execution units.
If his argument is 8 simulations ops case over and no cpu guarantees to always achieve it anyway.