Title :
Performance characterization of the Pentium Pro processor
Author :
Bhandarkar, Dileep ; Ding, Jason
Author_Institution :
Intel Corp., Santa Clara, CA, USA
Abstract :
In this paper, we characterize the performance of several business and technical benchmarks on a Pentium Pro processor based system. Various architectural data are collected using a performance monitoring counter tool. Results show that the Pentium Pro processor achieves significantly lower cycles per instruction than the Pentium processor due to its out of order and speculative execution, and non-blocking cache and memory system. Its higher clock frequency also contributes to even higher performance
Keywords :
computer architecture; microprocessor chips; performance evaluation; Pentium Pro processor; architectural data; benchmarks; memory system; nonblocking cache; performance characterization; performance monitoring counter tool; Clocks; Computer architecture; Counting circuits; Decoding; Out of order; Performance analysis; Performance evaluation; Registers; Sprites (computer); Statistics;
Conference_Titel :
High-Performance Computer Architecture, 1997., Third International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
San Antonio, TX
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7764-3
DOI :
10.1109/HPCA.1997.569689
