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So this post is supposed to show a relationship between transistors and documentation. Fine. x86 has 4181 pages of documentation. Quad-core Skylake has 1.75 bi
by CalChris 10y ago
So this post is supposed to show a relationship between transistors and documentation. Fine.
x86 has 4181 pages of documentation. Quad-core Skylake has 1.75 billion transistors. This is 418560 transistors per page.
The 6502 had 12 pages of documentation. It had 3,510 transistors. This is 292 transistors per page.
Advantage x86.
- Narishma 10y agoYou're comparing a single-core to a quad-core. Moreover, the Skylake is an SoC that contains stuff other than the CPU cores.
- CalChris 10y agoYes, Skylake is superscalar, hyperthreaded, multicore, SIMD, OOO, speculative and a few other things too. Yes, Skylake contains GPU stuff in its transistors and also in its documentation.
- theparanoid 10y agoCache is the majority.
- bbcbasic 10y agoBut if you have a box of 10k 6502's you can use the same 12 pages of docs and get 2920000 transistors per page.
- qb45 10y agoBut it's only fair to compare Skylake with at most a dozen or two of 6502s because that's how many cores are included in the Intel chip.
- mycall 10y agoSPARC M7 wins at 10,000,000,000 transistors.
- akiselev 10y agoThat's because the SPARC M7 has a significantly larger die size. It's a very specialized chip that costs an order of magnitude more than consumer Intel hardware and is manufactured with tech a generation behind. If Intel were to manufacture a chip as big as that, it would have 20-30 billion transistors.
- m_mueller 10y agoAFAIK their biggest one is Knight's Landing at 8B transistors.