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AMD Downgrades Bulldozer Transistor Count By 800 Million

Posted by timothy on from the but-who's-counting-is-the-actual-question dept.

Robadob writes "It has come to light that AMD PR had originally reported that the new Bulldozer processor's transistor count was 2 billion. AMD PR are now asking reviewers to correct this count to 1.2 billion from the original amount they provided ~3 months ago."

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  1. Slightly smaller disaster by Guppy · · Score: 4, Informative

    I guess the new figures make a little more sense. Bulldozer's performance was fairly similar to their previous (and smaller) Thuban Core, at 904 million transistors -- it was as if AMD decided to take more than half of their transistor design budget, heap it in a corner, and set it on fire.