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IPC is application depended, you cannot take itunes/lame (which are older apps) and conclude that Bulldozer always has lower IPC than Thuban.
Except it does, because it was designed to counteract the low IPC via high clock speeds. This has been common knowledge for, what, almost 2 years now?
Stop trying to sugarcoat it. There's clearly something wrong here. The X6 1100T is faster than the FX-6100, period. If it's not, outside of apps which use new instructions like AVX, then there's something wrong.
iTunes/LAME are the best programs for showing single-threaded performance. It correctly displays differences in architecture speeds in both AMD and Intel processors. You can clearly see the evolution going from the 1st to 2nd gen Core processors. If the excuse is now that you don't like iTunes, here's Cinebench as well:
Exact same thing. And again, this is not taking into account the 10-20% loss from the modular architecture.