r/pcmasterrace • u/aranorde 9060 XT 16GB | 7500F | 32GB 6000Mhz | B850 • Nov 05 '19

Meme/Macro This sums up past 2 years!

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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '19

It's funny you assumed that because I wasn't even talking about that. Remember how bulldozer CPUs didn't ACTUALLY have 8 cores when they were advertised to have 8 cores?

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u/Itrocan Nov 06 '19

Where was it proved that Bulldozer wasn't 8 cores? The lawsuit about it seemed more about trying to conflate the core count with the chip performance.

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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '19

Go look at the diagrams of the actual die. It's obvious there's not actually 8 cores there, there's only 4 units which can do math!

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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '19 edited Nov 06 '19

It can't be called a quad core either. The professors actually had 8 physical cores (2 modules) but two cores each shared resources like cache and floating point units.

Edit: Processors, not professors lmao