What went wrong?

Bulldozer was but a mere stepping stone to the greatness that was Ryzen
Good thing you can still use them as space heaters.

trying to compete but failing obviously

>>105747521 (OP)
Shit IPC
AMD fell for the clockspeed + core meme but neglected their IPC

>>105747521 (OP)
shit marketing
the fx 8530 was a pretty decent processor...
for a mid range one
certainly not a fucking flagship
4 meme core out of 8? wtf were they thinking?
bught mine for 60 bucks, excellent piece of kit
but when at 60, not 250

moar (fake) cores didnt scale

its still a emulation monster though

>>105747669
>didnt scale
they cant compute floats
whenever floats are involved youre working with a 4 core cpu :/

>>105747521 (OP)
clock for clock , it was slower than amd's own previous phenom series.

>>105749362
this, didnt buy because it wouldve been a downgrade from my 1090T

>>105747521 (OP)
poor leadership, reliance on automated tools,

They aren't actually as bad as people think they are , the bigger problem is that they tried to move to heavy multicore when there was no software to support it, and made too many sacrifices to do it.

I've also read rumors way back in the day that it was originally an attempt to do a reverse SMT design, but ended up with the half baked design due to time constraints. And that does kinda make sense, if you think of a bulldozer module as trying to join 2 cores , but failing to to get the single threaded benefits that might bring, and resulting in them trying to clock the shit out of it to compensate.

K10 Wipes the floor with Piledriver in single threaded stuff. My Phenom II X4 965 is unironically snappier to use than my 8350.