The register file allows much more accesses per cycle though and should actually be truly dual-ported (one register can be read and written in the same cycle). I'm not sure how exactly this works but Zen 2 has four vector units in the FPU so I'd naively expect the register file should be able to serve ~eight 256 bit reads per cycle and ~four 256 bit writes per cycle. So it should have those numbers of read and write ports at least? Additionally there should be a forwarding network around the ALUs. L1D only has a fraction of that connectivity. So between being dual-ported, having many more ports and probably the forwarding/bypass being integrated into this structure or at least being adjacent to it leads me to expect the FPU register file having a dramatically lower bit density than the L1D cache.
