Intel processors provide a useful set of performance counters for doing topdown analysis, particularly at the first topdown level. This first level asks questions in the following hierarchy: Is a Uop dispatched? If yes, is it retired? If yes –> … Continue reading →
Phoronix posted an article comparing 28 desktop CPUs. This post reviews some of the workloads that were used.
Continue reading →On the upper left of the web site is now an item labeled “phoronix”. Clicking there returns a table with a long list of Phoronix benchmarks. For each I’ve recorded the description, scores when running on my Intel reference system, … Continue reading →