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Given the fact that x86 instructions are not generally completed in a single cycle, how much of this increased clock do we actually expect to translate into fas
by Eridrus 4y ago
Given the fact that x86 instructions are not generally completed in a single cycle, how much of this increased clock do we actually expect to translate into faster performance? Presumably we're not expecting a 50% performance increase here.
- Denvercoder9 4y agoX% higher clock gives X% better computation performance, regardless of the number of clock cycles each instruction takes.
- wmf 4y agoMost x86 instructions do translate into a single uop that executes in a single cycle. Going from 5.5 to 6.0 GHz should be around 9% faster; maybe 10% with the larger L2.