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    16 CPUs, One Core Each, And 3 GHz

    Over at toms hardware they have an excellent article displaying the efficiency of all the processor architectures from 2005. It compares Intel architectures against it's self and AMD and vice versa.



    An excellent read

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    Re: 16 CPUs, One Core Each, And 3 GHz

    So when Bulldozer comes out, how will they define a 'core'?

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    Re: 16 CPUs, One Core Each, And 3 GHz

    Pentium 4, you so crazy! The efficiency gain between NB & Conroe really is quite astonishing and impressive.
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    Re: 16 CPUs, One Core Each, And 3 GHz

    Quote Originally Posted by Terbinator View Post
    Pentium 4, you so crazy! The efficiency gain between NB & Conroe really is quite astonishing and impressive.
    Efficiency is the wrong word for it really - NB was designed for high frequency and Conroe was designed for IPC - comparing either of them by the other's metric is going to show them up badly. NB was also available in frequencies up to 2x regular Conroe chips, so the overall gain in speed wasn't as dramatic as this chart shows.

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    Re: 16 CPUs, One Core Each, And 3 GHz

    After having a quick look at the chart in table one, it seems a Sandy Bridge core is around 28% faster than a Phenom II core. TBH,it is not as large as I expected. It seems to be significantly less than the IPC difference between the Athlon 64 and the Pentium 4. It really does make think at times why people whinge so much about the IPC of the Phenom II TBH!!

    Anyway,like kalniel stated before the chart does not take into consideration whether a CPU is designed for higher or lower clockspeed targets.
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    Re: 16 CPUs, One Core Each, And 3 GHz

    So AMD barely reached the IPC of Conroe with Thuban - an architecture 3 years newer? That pretty much says everything you need to know about just how good Conroe was! That said, it also gives you a good impression of how well AMD have done tweaking K8 in later iterations, to be able to make up the IPC despite having one less int pipeline.

    This is going to make a similar comparison to Bulldozer very interesting - if AMD's switch to 4-issue can approach the gains Intel got from P4 - Conroe, they could get very close to Sandy Bridge with it. That said, K8 was always targeted at lower clock speeds & higher IPC than Netburst, so they probably don't have as much leeway as Intel had in that regard.

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    Re: 16 CPUs, One Core Each, And 3 GHz

    Would have liked to see a few done at 1 GHz or something, with a Pentium 3 or P3-S, Pentium-M, Athlon XPs, and a Northwood/Williamette Pentium 4.

    Interesting to see just how outdated the Pentium 4 has become, now we are back up to 3GHz+ again that inefficient core really looks slow, the Athlon 64 architecture has aged better.

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    Re: 16 CPUs, One Core Each, And 3 GHz

    Quote Originally Posted by kingpotnoodle View Post
    ... the Athlon 64 architecture has aged better.
    I'm actually surprised at just how much IPC gain both companies have squeezed out of their recent architectures. Intel have made 25% from Conroe to Sandy Bridge: AMD have squeezed 20% from Windsor to Thuban, but of course Windsor was a fairly late K8 architecture and I assume they made IPC gains between Clawhammer (2003) and Windsor (2006) ... all without having to make significant changes to the core. I think most people would be pretty chuffed with a 25% IPC gain from iterative improvements...

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    Re: 16 CPUs, One Core Each, And 3 GHz

    Quote Originally Posted by scaryjim View Post
    but of course Windsor was a fairly late K8 architecture and I assume they made IPC gains between Clawhammer (2003) and Windsor (2006)
    If I remember clock for clock actually got slightly worse - the latencies increased, but they gained clockspeed and DDR2 controller.

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    Re: 16 CPUs, One Core Each, And 3 GHz

    I knew AMD weren't doing great on the IPC front, but I'm quite shocked at how far down the list they are.

    Effectively, even with my years-old Yorkfield processor, I'm still doing better than I would be with a new AMD quad.

    I probably should've known this already, but I haven't actually looked too carefully at any of the recent AMDs, having no occasion to actually buy them. Scary how far ahead Intel are.

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    Re: 16 CPUs, One Core Each, And 3 GHz

    Quote Originally Posted by kalniel View Post
    If I remember clock for clock actually got slightly worse - the latencies increased, but they gained clockspeed and DDR2 controller.
    Nah, that was just the change from DDR to DDR2 memory at the same frequency.
    The cores certainly improved.

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    Re: 16 CPUs, One Core Each, And 3 GHz

    Quote Originally Posted by DanceswithUnix View Post
    Nah, that was just the change from DDR to DDR2 memory at the same frequency.
    The cores certainly improved.
    http://www.anandtech.com/show/2139/3

    Quote Originally Posted by anandtech
    Luckily the performance impact of the higher latency L2 cache isn't noticeable in all applications, thanks to the K8's on-die memory controller, but make no mistake - the new core is slower.
    Was what I was remembering - which actually concerns the 65nm chips, my mistake, not the 90nm.

    AMD has given us the official confirmation that L2 cache latencies have increased, and that it purposefully did so in order to allow for the possibility of moving to larger cache sizes in future parts.
    Last edited by kalniel; 28-07-2011 at 09:18 PM.

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    Re: 16 CPUs, One Core Each, And 3 GHz

    It's all well and good looking at IPC but it's like comparing car engines based purely on torque, ignoring fuel economy, power and how fast the engine can spin.
    Just like looking at Clock speed is like comparing engines based purely on how high they can rev.
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    Re: 16 CPUs, One Core Each, And 3 GHz

    Quote Originally Posted by badass View Post
    It's all well and good looking at IPC but it's like comparing car engines based purely on torque, ignoring fuel economy, power and how fast the engine can spin.
    Just like looking at Clock speed is like comparing engines based purely on how high they can rev.
    Sure, but we're nerds and we like pointless benchmarks

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    Re: 16 CPUs, One Core Each, And 3 GHz

    Quote Originally Posted by kalniel View Post
    http://www.anandtech.com/show/2139/3

    Was what I was remembering - which actually concerns the 65nm chips, my mistake, not the 90nm.
    Yeah, the slower cache to allow for a size increase that never happened. Not their best move

    I was thinking about the 130 to 90nm shrink, with SSE3 & improved DDR interface.

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    Re: 16 CPUs, One Core Each, And 3 GHz

    Quote Originally Posted by kalniel View Post
    Sure, but we're nerds and we like pointless benchmarks
    And in full nerd mode, I would say this is more like BHP per litre (ie work done for a given capacity). Another benchmark useless on its own, but I rather like it

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