AMD's Bobcat and Bulldozer

[Hornet331]

I'm really sick of people posting in a thread only to comment about how someone else is a troll. So what if they are? Ad hominems still don't make for valid arguments or civilized discussion. These threads would be so much cleaner if people only remembered "attack the argument, not the person".

Wise words, but people resort to personal attacks if they have no or limited understading whats going on...

Just wondering, what with all the chatter about bulldozer being 2+2 (alu+agu), aren't all intel cpus from core 2 and on 3+1? Correct me if I'm wrong, but if that's the case and the grand majority of consumer applications don't use more than 2 alus at a time, then I don't really what the issue is.

Now what I can see being an issue is Sandy Bridge performing considerably better than expected (I recall many rumors saying it was just an efficiency platform, and minimal if no ipc improvements would be seen), however that really isn't a discussion for this thread anyways.

While its true that they are only 3+1 conroe introduced a 4(+1) for the decoding stage, just as BD did now. So the utilisation of the alus is/was higher.