Chips and Cheese has probably the most in depth publicly available dive for the tech reasons why Bulldozer was the way it was: https://chipsandcheese.com/2023/

Chips and Cheese has probably the most in depth publicly available dive for the tech reasons why Bulldozer was the way it was: https://chipsandcheese.com/2023/01/22/bulldozer-amds-crash-modernization-frontend-and-execution-engine/ https://chipsandcheese.com/2023/01/22/bulldozer-amds-crash-m... https://chipsandcheese.com/2023/01/24/bulldozer-amds-crash-modernization-caching-and-conclusion/ https://chipsandcheese.com/2023/01/24/bulldozer-amds-crash-m... --- From a consumer perspective, Bulldozer and revisions as compared to Skylake and revisions were: + comparable on highly multi-threaded loads + cheaper - significantly behind on less multi-threaded loads - had 1 set of FPUs per 2 cores, so workloads with lots of floating point calculations were also weaker - Most intensive consumer software was single or a very small number of thread focused still (this was also a problem for Intel in trying to get people to buy more expensive i7s/i9s over i5s in those days)