The AMD Zen and Ryzen 7 Review: A Deep Dive on 1800X, 1700X and 1700

AMD’s Bulldozer-based design was an ambitious goal: typically a processor core will have a single instruction entry point leading to a decode then dispatch to separate integer or floating point schedulers. Bulldozer doubled the integer scheduler and throughput capabilities, and allowed the module to accept two threads of instructions - this meant that integer heavy workloads could perform well, ot