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[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I mean… It functioned as a CPU.

But a Phenom II X6 outperformed it sometimes, single thread and multithreaded. That's crazy given Pildriver’s two generation jump and huge process/transistor count advantage. Power consumption was awful in any form factor.

Look. I am an AMD simp. I will praise my 7800X3D all day. But there were a whole bunch of internet apologist for Bulldozer back then, so I don’t want to mince words:

It was bad.

Objectively bad, a few software niches aside. Between cheaper Phenoms and the reasonably priced 2500K/4670K, it made zero financial sense 99% of the time.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Bulldozer was AMD's Pentium 4.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Even down to the questionable marketing.