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AMD Bulldozer CPU Architecture Overview

Architecture per core:

Bulldozer1

At the chip level, 8 cores per CPU: BulldozerChipLevel

Registers per core: BulldozerRegisters

Unfortunately I didn't find opcode clock cycles on AMD's website. AMD's website seems to be almost unmaintained, i.e., lots of dead links. Below are some clock cycles gathered through experiment by Agner Fog. I took the values measured for Bulldozer in Instruction Tables.

opcode clock cycles
MOV 1
ADD, SUB 1
AND, OR, XOR 1
CMP 1
MUL 4
DIV 16
FABS 2
FADD, FSUB 5-6
FLD 2
FMUL 5-6
FDIV 10-42
FSQRT 10-52
FSIN 65-210
FCOS ~160
FSINCOS 95-160
FPTAN 95-245
FPATAN 60-440

Due to out-of-order execution timings may vary in actual programs.

See the following programmer's manuals from AMD:

  1. AMD64 Architecture Programmer’s Manual Volume 1: Application Programming, local copy
  2. AMD64 Architecture Programmer’s Manual, Volume 3: General-Purpose and System Instructions, local copy
  3. AMD64 Architecture Programmer’s Manual Volume 5: 64-Bit Media and x87 Floating-Point Instructions, local copy