I mean… It functioned as a CPU.

But a Phenom II X6 outperformed it sometimes, single thread and multithreaded. That's crazy given Pildriver’s two generation jump and huge process/transistor count advantage. Power consumption was awful in any form factor.

Look. I am an AMD simp. I will praise my 7800X3D all day. But there were a whole bunch of internet apologist for Bulldozer back then, so I don’t want to mince words:

It was bad.

Objectively bad, a few software niches aside. Between cheaper Phenoms and the reasonably priced 2500K/4670K, it made zero financial sense 99% of the time.