By: EduardoS (no.delete@this.spam.com), April 23, 2012 2:22 pm
Room: Moderated Discussions
Eric (lol@safetymail.info) on 4/23/12 wrote:
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>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
Neither have more information than an old public slide, the first step comes with Piledriver stated as 10-15% improvement, and those 10-15% improvement we know will come from:
- Higher clock due to process maturity and clock mesh;
- Double L2 write bandwidth;
- Lower forwarding latency;
- Slightly bigger instruction window (I'm not sure, IIRC it is just for the FPU scheduller);
- Other small (or smaller...) changes to the core.
In the Steamroller node there is the same "10-15%" text with a "greater parallelism", take your own conclusions to what this does means.
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>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
Neither have more information than an old public slide, the first step comes with Piledriver stated as 10-15% improvement, and those 10-15% improvement we know will come from:
- Higher clock due to process maturity and clock mesh;
- Double L2 write bandwidth;
- Lower forwarding latency;
- Slightly bigger instruction window (I'm not sure, IIRC it is just for the FPU scheduller);
- Other small (or smaller...) changes to the core.
In the Steamroller node there is the same "10-15%" text with a "greater parallelism", take your own conclusions to what this does means.



