Quote Originally Posted by JkS View Post
I believe the AMD engineers have weighed all the options and have chosen the best configuration.
The ALU and AGUs in Bulldozer are new designs, so it should be much more superior and more efficient than the old designs.
Sure, the 4 BD pipes will certainly be better than the 6old of K8/K10. Nevertheless is is a mistake to just count 3 pipelines for the latter, as it was done in the schematic.

Quote Originally Posted by -Boris- View Post
I've noticed some stuff. The whole module aproach is to save diespace, the 2 ALUs and shared FPU is all about performance per mm2, and performance per watt. At the same time they made a tradeoff where they sacrificed die space for higher clocks. They have aggressive turbo and energy saving features, maybe the most effective ever.

In other words. They done everything the can to get high performance per watt and mm2, then they've done everything the can in translating this advantage to higher clocks and turbo.
Congratulations, you understood BD's design philosophy ;-)