Bulldozer was AMD's microarchitecture codename for server and desktop AMD FX processors, first released on October 12, 2011. This family 15h microarchitecture is the successor to the family 10h (K10) microarchitecture design. Bulldozer was a clean-sheet design, not a development of earlier processors. The core was specifically aimed at 10–125 W TDP computing products. AMD claimed dramatic performance-per-watt efficiency improvements in high-performance computing (HPC) applications with Bulldozer cores. While hopes were high that Bulldozer would bring AMD to be performance-competitive with Intel once more, most benchmarks were disappointing. In some cases the new Bulldozer products were slower than the K10 models they were built to replace.
bulldozer was amd's microarchitecture codename for server and desktop amd fx processors first released on october 12 2011 this family 15h microarchitecture is the successor to the family 10h (k10) microarchitecture design bulldozer was a clean-sheet design not a development of earlier processors the core was specifically aimed at 10–125 w tdp computing products amd claimed dramatic performance-per-watt efficiency improvements in high-performance computing (hpc) applications with bulldozer cores while hopes were high that bulldozer would bring amd to be performance-competitive with intel once more most benchmarks were disappointing in some cases the new bulldozer products were slower than the k10 models they were built to replace