Originally posted by _ONH_
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1) Price, less stuff into the cpu = cost lest to build, and it's less likely to come out with something broken
2) Power consummation
3) Die space
First and second point are kinda invalidated by Kabini, which is cheap, has better performance per watt than Kaveri, and cost less.
Third point would be fair, but Bulldozers is the architecture used for desktop cpu that doesn't have an iGPU. Ok, a market that AMD seems to be abandoning, but I don't think this was the plain years ago.
To me, it feels like one of those ideas "great on paper, but useless/bad in reality".
That said, you're right, integer performance is usually what matter the most, especially now that we have GPU that are really good at fp math.
Originally posted by Ericg
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