Bulldozer's Oddities.

By: Eric (lol.delete@this.safetymail.info), April 23, 2012 12:33 pm
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mpx (mpx@nomai.pl) on 4/23/12 wrote:
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>EduardoS (no@spam.com) on 4/22/12 wrote:
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>>mpx (mpx@nomail.pl) on 4/22/12 wrote:
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>>>"Steamroller" 3-rd generation modular core: greater parallelism.
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>>Hum... 256 bits AVX2?
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>Perhaps plus a decoder and SMT per 'core'? With only FPU and branch parts shared.
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>They only have +30% of additional estate while going from 32nm to 28nm with similar
>die sizes. These three seem like an economical enough way of spending such limited resources.

There's some new information (all right, it's almost a week old, but I didn't see it until now) about the estimated performance of the Steamroller core. AMD apparently projects that core performance will increase by 33% over that of Bulldozer, and according to Softpedia: "This doesn’t mean that the CPU won’t benefit from other performance enhancing developments, such as a better memory controller or more cache with lower latencies." What kind of improvements to the micro-architecture can we expect based on that information? I especially jumped on the part that apparently excludes improvements to caches and the memory controller from those 33% given that the current consensus seems to be that most of Bulldozer's performance problems are caused by its cache hierarchy.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/AMD-s-New-Steamroller-Architecture-to-Bring-Significant-Performance-264918.shtml
http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/display/20120416165428_AMD_Expects_Significant_Performance_Improvements_with_Steamroller_Microprocessors.html
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                        Bulldozer's Oddities.Eric04/23/12 12:33 PM
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                            Bulldozer's Oddities.Eric04/23/12 07:30 PM
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              Clustered MT as SMT for high frequencyPaul A. Clayton04/20/12 04:10 PM
                Clustered MT as SMT for high frequencyhcl6404/28/12 12:56 AM
                  Clustered MT as SMT for high frequencyanonymous04/28/12 01:43 AM
                    Clustered MT as SMT for high frequencyhcl6404/28/12 02:59 PM
                      Clustered MT as SMT for high frequencyanonymous04/28/12 08:45 PM
                  Clustered MT as SMT for high frequencyanon04/28/12 02:13 AM
                    Clustered MT as SMT for high frequencyhcl6404/28/12 03:23 PM
                      Clustered MT as SMT for high frequencyanon04/28/12 06:19 PM
                        Clustered MT as SMT for high frequencyhcl6404/28/12 07:58 PM
                  Clustered MT as SMT for high frequencyDavid Kanter04/28/12 06:38 AM
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                      Guessed meaning of "strong dependency model"EduardoS04/28/12 09:46 AM
                        *Right meaning* about "strong dependency model"hcl6404/28/12 04:59 PM
                    Clustered MT as SMT for high frequencyhcl6404/28/12 04:24 PM
                      Clustered MT as SMT for high frequencyanonymous04/28/12 08:50 PM
                        Clustered MT as SMT for high frequencyhcl6404/28/12 09:47 PM
                          SNB widthDavid Kanter04/28/12 09:48 PM
                            SNB widthhcl6404/29/12 02:24 AM
                      Clustered MT as SMT for high frequencyDavid Kanter04/28/12 09:56 PM
                        Clustered MT as SMT for high frequencyhcl6404/28/12 11:44 PM
                          SOI, FD vs. PDDavid Kanter04/29/12 07:19 AM
                            SOI, FD vs. PDhcl6404/29/12 05:31 PM
                              SOI, FD vs. PDDavid Kanter04/29/12 11:26 PM
                                SOI, FD vs. PDhcl6404/30/12 08:08 AM
                                  SOI, FD vs. PDDavid Kanter04/30/12 09:59 AM
                                    SOI, FD vs. PDhcl6404/30/12 06:10 PM
                                      SOI, FD vs. PDDavid Kanter04/30/12 06:32 PM
                                        SOI, FD vs. PDhcl6404/30/12 10:47 PM
                                          SOI, FD vs. PDDavid Kanter05/01/12 02:24 AM
                                            SOI, FD vs. PDhcl6405/01/12 05:46 AM
                                            SOI, FD vs. PDhcl6405/01/12 06:37 AM
                                              SOI, FD vs. PDDavid Kanter05/01/12 08:19 AM
                                          SOI, FD vs. PDhcl6405/01/12 07:39 AM
                                            PD-SOIDavid Kanter05/02/12 12:22 PM
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                                      SOI, FD vs. PDDavid Kanter04/30/12 10:16 PM
                                        SOI, FD vs. PDslacker05/01/12 10:04 PM
                                          SOI, FD vs. PDDavid Kanter05/02/12 08:19 AM
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