So just to confirm, that means a single module can retire 8 macro ops per clock cycle then? Because a module is supposed to be two cores. Which means top level bulldozer can retire 32 macro ops per clock cycle?Originally Posted by informal
So just to confirm, that means a single module can retire 8 macro ops per clock cycle then? Because a module is supposed to be two cores. Which means top level bulldozer can retire 32 macro ops per clock cycle?
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Yes and no. A module can potentially retire up to 8 macro ops per cycle when executing two threads and tracking two contexts. If only executing one thread it can potentially retire only 4.
This is the strongest argument that it is an 8 core CPU because when running 8 threads the total potential retirement will be 4 issue x 8
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