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Bulldozer was less performant than its predecessor once you factor in the process node. That's why it was a disaster: AMD managed to design a worse processor an
by TazeTSchnitzel 8y ago
Bulldozer was less performant than its predecessor once you factor in the process node. That's why it was a disaster: AMD managed to design a worse processor and were stuck with it for years. They did make it less bad over time, but it still sucked.
- MrRadar 8y agoThis. Bulldozer was (ironically) AMD's Netburst moment. They made a speculative play ("modules" in the case of Bulldozer, long pipelines in the case of Netburst) to chase high core counts/clock speeds (respectively) and the technology didn't end up panning out like they expected on top of performing worse out-of-the-gate than the architectures they were meant to succeed. The difference is that Intel had the cash and political clout to wait out Netburst and force the market to take it while Bulldozer nearly killed AMD (which only held on thanks to its GPU division, itself now in crisis due to lack of competitive products due to under-investment).