New PC Architectures - Processors, Chipsets, Performance, Bandwidth

08.10.01


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Table of Contents

New PC Architectures - Processors, Chipsets, Performance, Bandwidth

PC - schematic

Intel 860 Chipset

AMD Athlon

Intel P4

Pentium 4 CPU Core

PC Vector instructions

SSE/SSE2 registers

SSE/SSE2 instructions SSE instruction example: Packed Add, 64 bit addpd xmm1,xmm2

SSE/SSE2 instructions SSE instruction example: Shuffle, 32 bit shuffps xmm1, xmm2, 9Ch (10 01 11 00 b)

SSE2 prefetch example (M. Lüscher)

SSE(2) support

Double Data Rate (DDR) SDRAM and Rambus

Rambus, DDR SDRAM roadmaps

Bandwidth considerations (see Jef Poskanzer http://www.acme.com/build_a_pc/bandwidth.html)

Bandwidth considerations (cont.)

PPT Slide

PPT Slide

Benchmarks (Lies, Damned Lies, Benchmarks, Roger Shepherd, Peter Thompson, Inmos Techn. Note 27, Jan. 1988)

Examples of standard (synthetic) Benchmarks

Stream Benchmark for Rambus memory on P4

Application Benchmarks, Stream benchmark

Application benchmarks - MILC benchmark (LQCD), non optimized

Author: mjansson

Email: peter.wegner@ifh.de

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