Also, the benchmark is clock-for-clock, so while the older Phenom II looks like it's ahead, the Buldozer should be able to go faster still.
All that said, I really enjoyed this retrospective look.
And perhaps most importantly: 4x decoders/4x L1 iCache. IIRC, the entire damn chip was decoder-bound.
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Note: AMD Zen has 4x Integer pipelines and 4x FPU pipelines __PER CORE__. Modern high-performance systems CANNOT have a single 2x-pipeline FPU shared between two cores (averaging one pipeline per core). Modern Zen is closer to 4x pipelines per core, maybe more depending on how you count load/store units.
stn8188•1h ago