Quote Originally Posted by nn_step View Post
The Integer performance seems rather unusual especially when looking at the decode rate. I've found some edge cases where the decode rate seems to be only 1 instruction per clock [All of them thus far seem to be in Compatibility mode and Legacy mode]
how do you found that?
since BD is sharing 4 instruction fetch/decoder across 2 cores in a module, and the fetch/decoder is shared at alternate clock. Effectively per core has just 4/2 fetch/decoder's peak performance.