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Bulldozer Core-Count Debate Comes Back to Haunt AMD

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About the stuff you are making up such as the fact that only ALUs can be power gated and nothing else.
Do you agree that power gated unit does not work? Work meaning perform the function it is supposed to?
 
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You simply don't know what is power gated and what isn't, give it up.

But from the fact that there is still scaling to be gained even for floating point throughput by enabling both cores within the modules suggests there is more to it than just disabling the ALU. Clearly the fetch/decode/FPU are affected as well when disabling one core per module.
 
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You are derailing the topic with power gating. Stop putting words in my mouth. I have not said ALUs are the only thing that can be power gated and I indeed expect everything can be power gated, probably on a unit level as well as on more granular level in many cases.

Increased throughput in this case - including the floating point throughput in some cases - has not that much to do with cores. It is related to available compute pipelines as well as managing the work.
Fetch/Decode/FPU are affected positively when one Integer Cluster is disabled. They have to do less work. Especially with OS then not pushing 2 threads worth of work into the module :)
 
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8 alu from memory, for integer ops its an 8 core for floating point its a 4 core, simples, i personally would have called it an 8 thread cpu, not and 8 core. at the same time its up to the customer to do some research, as a quad core its decent perf but for an 8 core its kind of pathetic

That is an incorrect assessment. The FPU works as two independent units unless either core needs to execute a 256-bit FP op. The units were designed to fuse together for (relatively rare) 256 bit operations.

Calling a module a single core because of how the FP unit works would be akin to having two 3" paint brushes and calling them a single 6" brush because you *can* hold them together to paint a thicker line.
 
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FPU consists of 4x64-bit pipes that can be fused into 2x128-bit or 1x256-bit as needed. 4x64b and 2x128b can be shared to two separate threads just fine.
FPU really is not a reason why module would be a single core. FPU has not always been a part of CPUs and that includes fairly recent stuff for example ARMv6 or v7.
 
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Performance doesn't really matter. It's definition of words in the eyes of the public and whether or not AMD used words to describe their product in a way that was misleading to the public.

The public understand "core" as independent processors. That's not the case with AMD modules.

Interesting take on it, and yes, plausible too.
 

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You are making a lot of assumptions here it seems without cheeking first, cores can be turned off. You do understand what independent means I presume, so I ask you again how can you do this without breaking the functionality of the module ?

On reason why AMD split dispatcher in future iterations of the design is that they could shutdown more transistors when there was only one thread directed at the module. This is not an issue with independent cores at all.

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That does exactly what I said It does: soft powers off one integer core per module by denying a thread to each module. The settings below are per module which are the equivalent of powering down an independent core. It affirms what I said about the design: you can't stop just core0, or core6 like independent cores can. So many components being shared limit its ability to do so.

"12 members of the public (not necessarily from an IT background)"

It is stupid to have non-IT people in the jury in a case like this.
It's the public that was damaged, not necessarily IT people that have a deeper understanding of what they're buying.

Also, juries are always randomly selected and screened for conflicts of interest. They're always supposed to be neutral and representative of the district's population.

Look at the Bulldozer block diagram @Vya Domus posted a few posts up. It has been said in this thread repeatedly that AMD did provide fairly nice details about the Bulldozer Architecture.
That block diagram is a single module. The moment you shut down any parts that are not duplicated it will no longer work. The duplicated parts are the two Integer Clusters.
The fact that AMD never produced a diagram of a "single core" of Bulldozer is evidence that closest similarity to a "single core" in other designs is, in fact, what AMD calls a module. Module is the smallest, complete processor (what a core is) Bulldozer has.
 
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It simply doesn't matter if it's singular hardware block or not. Look how many entries the decode stage has.




You have some serious reading issues.

Thanks for posting this diagram. If I have 2 independent integer instructions to execute, is it possible for cluster 1 and cluster 2 to execute at the exact same clock cycle without delaying any of them?
 

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Yes, assuming the dispatcher doesn't run in to any blocking scenarios (e.g. only a 256-bit FPU instruction to execute).
 
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"12 members of the public (not necessarily from an IT background)"

It is stupid to have non-IT people in the jury in a case like this.

i dont see how that is true..
the case is
"normal members of the public were sold "cores" which weren't the same as a traditional core. But amd says that normal members of the public would have known the difference"

Who better to have than normal members of the public if the argument is the public should know the difference.
 
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Thanks for posting this diagram. If I have 2 independent integer instructions to execute, is it possible for cluster 1 and cluster 2 to execute at the exact same clock cycle without delaying any of them?

Each cluster can execute 4 instructions concurrently in total , two arithmetic and two memory operations.

Yes, assuming the dispatcher doesn't run in to any blocking scenarios (e.g. only a 256-bit FPU instruction to execute).

Floating point instructions do not block arithmetic ones as far as I know. The only limitation appears when a single 256 bit operation is issued which blocks any other floating point instruction for the respective clock cycles.
 

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If you have two threads which have a series of 256-bit instructions queued, only one thread will proceed per clock.
 
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In the case of two threads which consist of a sequence of 256 bit ops each, blocking integer ops isn't even a consideration anyway.
 

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FX-8350 can only execute 4 256-bit FPU operations at a time. Ryzen 2700X can execute 8 256-bit FPU operations at a time. The duties of a core aren't exclusively integer in nature.
 
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And this relevant to the discussion why ?
 

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There are situations where a Bulldozer module behaves like a single core with SMT.
 
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FX-8350 can only execute 4 256-bit FPU operations at a time. Ryzen 2700X can execute 8 256-bit FPU operations at a time. The duties of a core aren't exclusively integer in nature.

And Phenom II can do 0 256-bit FPU, AVX support does not a core make or break. For that matter FPU does not a core make or break.
That said... the FX 8150 and line can do 8x 128-bit FPU operations or can combine and do 4x 256-bit.
A poorly architected design does not change the core count no matter how much you want to argue over it.
Being able to turn cores off in pairs or as singles does not change the core count... there was a time where there was no power gating, all on or all off, were they no longer cores then?

Plain and simple frivolous lawsuit. The performance sucked, they overhyped it, the only argument they have IS performance of those 8 cores was not better than 4 quick cores and that is a bogus argument.
 
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what you, i or amd want to classify as a core. is not relevant, the only thing relevant to the case is what did people think a core was due to convention of the time. and did amd provide people the thing they expected when they said 8 cores.
AMD says people should have understood it wasn't 8 fully independent cores even though they didn't label it as such.
The law suit says amd should have labeled it properly and not doing so was deliberate.

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I dont think you could possibly arrive where we are today if they did have 8 real cores.
and you may want to bring up infinity fabric and how things are glued together as a Scandal that just isnt anything.. But the thing with that is.. that genuinly isnt an issue and will never end up in a thread like this 4-5 years down the road.
 
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The law suit says amd should have labeled it properly and not doing so was deliberate.
Exactly.
core == processor
integer core != core (rather integer core is a component of a core)

Federal Trade Commission: Under the law, claims in advertisements must be truthful, cannot be deceptive or unfair, and must be evidence-based.
AMD used two phrases in describing what Bulldozer was that were not deceptive: module and integer core. They elected not to use these phrases instead, went the deceptive, untruthful one: core. Outside of the context of Bulldozer, references to a "core" as an "integer core" are virtually nonexistent. Since the debut of the multicore CPU, cores meant individual processors sharing the same socket.

Evidence is found in how Bulldozer was designed differently. A core in any other CPU is effectively an independent processor. By the same logic, AMD's module has more similarities with a core than AMD's integer cores do. Evidence, therefore, strongly suggests untruthfulness here too.
 
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Exactly.
core == processor
integer core != core (rather integer core is a component of a core)


AMD used two phrases in describing what Bulldozer was that were not deceptive: module and integer core. They elected not to use these phrases instead, went the deceptive, untruthful one: core. Outside of the context of Bulldozer, references to a "core" as an "integer core" are virtually nonexistent. Since the debut of the multicore CPU, cores meant individual processors sharing the same socket.

Evidence is found in how Bulldozer was designed differently. A core in any other CPU is effectively an independent processor. By the same logic, AMD's module has more similarities with a core than AMD's integer cores do. Evidence, therefore, strongly suggests untruthfulness here too.


You are basing core defn on existence of AVX support. In that case there are 20 years of non cpu cores.
There are 8 int and 8 128bit FPU compute units. Those are the facts. How the cpu is composed modularly does not change the fact that there are in fact 8 cores.
Zen is composed of 4 core modules. That doesn't mean that a 2700x has 2 cores it has 8.
 
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its not a matter of what we call a core, or what amd call a core.
Its a matter of what the general accepted definition of a core was at the time.
AMD even in the evidence provided from other users here admit that the bulldozers did not use a conventional core.

the law suit basically says
People bought bulldozers thinking they were getting 8 conventional cores.
amd Deliberately neglected to state that they were not the cores that you were probably expecting.
People should be compensated.

you are welcome to try and say amd adequatly explained the cores in bulldozers were not the same as those in other multi core processors of the time.
But then you have to remember you are talking to other people who Also knew from the start what they were.

The people who were "allegedly" ripped off are the people who just saw a box saying "8cores" and bought it not knowing anything about it other than more cores = more better.

Now i can argue back and forth as to why i don't call them cores, but that does not matter, just as you can argue back and forth why you think they are cores.
the only thing that matters is people expected product A and received product B, and Product B was not adequately advertised to state that it was not the same as product A.
 

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The lack of reading comprehension you have shown is exceptional. You are basing core defn on existence of AVX support. In that case there are 20 years of non cpu cores.
I'm basing it on this (Excavator versus Zen):

And this (Thuban):

Thuban -> core
Excavator -> core but let's call it a module and slap it next to a...
Zen -> core ...because they're basically one in the same, right?

This slide should be exhibit A for the plaintiff (look at that title even :laugh:):

2 integer cores != 2 cores

If you put Excavator cores or Zen cores in the Thuban diagram, you end up with six of them either way and both can handle 12 threads. The *only* difference is that Excavator has extra ALUs and a decoder to accelerate the second thread.
 
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