See now you just making stuff up because you were 100% wrong! Regardless of your Fab or your process state you have to design your circuits and how they form together to create a processor in a way that allows for high clocking.
But then if you break down the facts further your statement looks even more ridiculous
1. 14nm LLP is not worse then 28/20nm bulk, explain polaris ,pascal, moongoose, A9 etc clocks vs their predecessors.
2. According to the stilt Bulldozer is Fmax limited by the L2, meaning the Cores themselves could clock even higher then 8.4ghz reached under LN2, guess which processor has a much smaller and simpler L2?
3. Reality is backing this up with ES having 3.6ghz base clocks, that is the same as the FX-8150
So who is right, the person leading the design teams at the time when all this low level design work was in the process of being planned and created ( 2012-2015) or cytg111 who so far doesn't have a single tangible piece of evidence to support his position?
What am I making up? Keep it civil please, feel free to disagree with me, but keep it civil? Can we do that? I think my entire point is that I am not making things up.. or rather extrapolating from interpretations of something that someone once said mixed with a few ES leaks and an AMD demo.
1. Unless you have performance characteristics of Zen on 28/20nm bulk .. then it is conjecture in my opinion. You got indications sure, conjecture sure. Facts, proof, absolutes? No.
2. The Stilt said that .....
3. Still ES, again, remeber haswell ES clocking to the sky 5+ and early retail stumbled on 4.3-4.4? (could be fabbed elsewhere or differently, tim instead of solder or whatever)
As far as "or cytg111 who so far doesn't have a single tangible piece of evidence" - that is pretty easy cause I am not claiming nor trying to proove anything! - Thats the whole point.
(I am not trying to pick a fight here, its the mad scientist in me that cant make your model fit P<=0.05 .. and aight, lets say that is ignorance on my part and agree to disagree.)