Feb .19  2007

Pretty Pictures & Numbers

 by Hans de Vries 

 

 

     Intel Core family picture.  

 

Meet the family !  The fifth member, Penryn, has just been born and will start walking in Q1, 2008.  A few interesting facts can be derived by comparing the different generations. Four process node generations and two micro-architectural generations. The

relative scaling for the process nodes is given in the table below.   

 

 

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Ideal and actual scaling during process node transitions. 

 

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130 nm to 90 nm

transition

90 nm to 65 nm

transition

65 nm to 45 nm

transition

Ideal Area Scaling

0.48

0.52

0.48

Logic Area Scaling

0.72

0.70

0.70

SRAM Area Scaling

0.67

0.64

0.48

 


Die, Core and Cache Sram areas.

 

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Processor

Die Size

Core Size

L3  / L2  Cache Sram

45 nm

Intel  Penryn

107 mm2

22.0 mm2

6.0 mm2 / MB

65 nm

AMD Barcelona

283 mm2

25.5 mm2

11.2 - 12.1 mm2 / MB

65 nm

AMD Brisbane

126 mm2

20.8 mm2

18.5 mm2 / MB

65 nm Intel Merom 143 mm2 31.5 mm2 12.4 mm2 / MB
65 nm Intel Yonah 91 mm2 19.6 mm2 12.4 mm2 / MB
90 nm AMD Windsor 220 mm2 31 mm2 35.0 mm2 / MB
90 nm Intel Dothan 87.7 mm2 28 mm2 19.5 mm2 / MB
130 nm AMD (Hip7) 194 mm2 55 mm2 68.5 mm2 / MB
130 nm Intel Banias 82.8 mm2

39 mm2

29 mm2 / MB

updated March 28, 2007      

 

     Today's 65 nm battle:   Conroe versus Brisbane   (Nov. 2006)

 

The two combatants showed next to each other at the same absolute scale. 

 

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      AMD family picture.  (Nov.2006)

 

From the very first 32 bit Athlon to the latest four core K10 Barcelona die 

 

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     K10  core overview diagram.  (June 2006)

One of the four cores of the K10 in detail. Barcelona a.k.a Deerhound, Agena, and K8L 

 

 

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Regards, Hans

 

 

 

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