Performance Per Transistor

Performance Per Transistor

• Performance data from uP vendors
• Transistor count excludes on-chip caches
• Performance normalized by clock rate
• Conclusion: Simplest is best! (250K Transistor CPU)

Millions of Transistors (CPU)

Millions of Transistors (CPU)

Normalized SPECINTS

Normalized SPECFLTS

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