Article: AMD's Mobile Strategy
By: Rohit (.delete@this..), December 26, 2011 8:53 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
EBFE (ebfe@na.com) on 12/25/11 wrote:
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>Rohit (@.) on 12/25/11 wrote:
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>>EBFE (ebfe@na.com) on 12/25/11 wrote:
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>>>IMO the most important rule is not to defeat HW prefetch.
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>>But GPUs don't have hw prefetch, afaik.
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>Excuse me, but I'm sort of confused of your points by mentioning GPU here.
>I thought this sub-thread is tallking about CPU?
Since we were discussing streaming, I had GPU's in mind. But for CPUs, yeah hw prefetch works very well.
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>Rohit (@.) on 12/25/11 wrote:
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>>EBFE (ebfe@na.com) on 12/25/11 wrote:
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>>>IMO the most important rule is not to defeat HW prefetch.
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>>But GPUs don't have hw prefetch, afaik.
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>Excuse me, but I'm sort of confused of your points by mentioning GPU here.
>I thought this sub-thread is tallking about CPU?
Since we were discussing streaming, I had GPU's in mind. But for CPUs, yeah hw prefetch works very well.