anonymou5 (no.delete@this.spam.com) on October 21, 2016 6:44 pm wrote:
> > http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2016/10/21/apples-a10-iphone-chip-smokes-the-competition-says-linley-group/
>
> How are they coming up with 11.6 mm^2 for Broadwell?
>
> If you count pixels in the public die pics, it's more
> like 5.35 x 1.90 = 10.165 mm^2 for the core+LLC slice,
> and more like 3.50 x 1.75 = 6.125 mm^2 for the core.
>
> For Skylake, it's 4.15 * 2.85 = 11.8275 mm^2 including
> the LLC and 3.70 x 2.20 = 8.14 mm^2 for the core, and
> for Kabylake it's 4.10 * 2.80 = 11.48 mm^2 and 3.65 x
> 2.20 = 8.03 mm^2. (Realistically... no change at all.)
>
> Trying to cut out the L2 caches from these... I do not
> have the patience for tonight, sorry. :)

Once I made this comparison based on the die photos provided in a Hungarian article:



Megateszt: Intel CPU-k Nehalemtől Skylake-ig
(it also contains very uarch diagrams with ROB, PRF sizes, etc.)

Zen comes in at around 6 sqmm incl. L2.