Earlier this week, AMD was a part of the new class action suit over its Bulldozer CPUs which claims that AMD has falsely marketed the number of cores in the chip and today, we have a reply from AMD.

The class action lawsuit claims that AMD has overstated the number of cores in Bulldozer chip, where AMD advertised eight cores despite the fact that the architecture combines two cores in a single module, thus leaving the Bulldozer chip with "four modules" or four cores, which in the end results in performance degradation.

According to AMD's statement, the company has decided to stick with its earlier marketing stating that it believes their "marketing accurately reflects the capabilities of the Bulldozer architecture which, when implemented in an 8-core FX-series CPU, is capable of running eight instructions concurrently."

While Windows detects the Bulldozer module as two separate cores, those same cores share a single FPU as well as the same instruction and execution resources while Intel CPUs features independent FPUs for each core.

Hopefully, AMD will not be found in violation for false advertising as that is the last thing that the company needs right now.



Source: Kitguru.net.