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Originally Posted by seronx
Each core has 2 EXALUs and 2 AGLUs the original specification is that there was going to be 4 AGLUs but that was a rumour made by Dresdenboy
Again each core has dedicated datapaths, instruction buses, data buses, and control units..
2 DATAPATHS, 2 IBUSES, 2DBUSES, 2ConUNITS => 2 CORES NOTHING IS SHARED
IT IS EIGHT CORES!
TECHNICAL DEFINITIONS PLACE BULLDOZER of the OROCHI DIE AT EIGHT CORES
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Lets go through your image specifically. Having separate datapaths means nothing when there is still only a single unit. 2 roads to the same place if you will.
The module is not actually split into 2 cores that is the idea behind Bulldozer fit more into the package. In the image I split it for simplicity the
only section physically separate for the cores is the actual integer calculation sections with their cache. Everything else is shared again separate paths to the same place don't make the place anymore split. The cores would still have to share. Any communications outside of the module go core->module->IO not core->IO once again making the dependent of the module itself further making them not into a true core as is normal for a K10 or SB style CPU. This is a new design with separate
integer cores within modules. They are
not the same cores as anything else to this point utilizes. While an 8150 has 8
integer cores it does not have 8 separate processing modules like a Phenom X8 would.