When you're not able to increase the IPC on your current ľarch, you must use faster clocks to increase the performance. In order to use faster clocks, you need an high throughput engine and remove all bottlenecks in your frontend. Sometimes you need to do some horrible things to achieve this like putting your L1 in Write-Through while trying to amaze ppls with "ultra high bandwidth" FP/SMD units... even if you're not able to feed them correctly with your decode/dispatch unit in all cases. Finally, you'll get a decent CPU, but only at very high frequency and with a LOT of power to dissipate. Worst of all : when your process is not able to give you high yields, you must launch it at low freq.Originally Posted by freeloader
Say hello to Netburst....
...and Bulldozer ?
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