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To: Ali Chen who wrote (225597)	2/8/2007 2:29:58 PM
From: fastpathguru	Read Replies (1) of 275872

The list you compiled looks very impressive indeed. Unfortunately, I don't see much in it that would address optimisation of outside memory traffic, the area where AMD is currently quite behind Intel. From what I am gathering, current AMD Opterons are about equal in terms of _raw_ IPC performance to Core 2. The performance lag is in handling of external memory traffic, the issue that was always overlooked historically, misunderstood and under-appreciated. Until AMD manages to manufacture caches as big as Intel does (and same low latency), no nitpicking in _raw_IPC_ would regain performance parity, IMO. Not sure if you're saying what you sound like you're saying... AMD has the superior interface to external memory, via the integrated memory controller. Intel has compensated for their deficiency with their large caches. Now AMD is also going to have larger (even if not as humongo as Intel's) caches. That list also includes many memory hierarchy related improvements such as increasing internal bandwidth, etc. fpg

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