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 | | I know fanboys will flame me, but i don't see K8 as a real new architecture instead; basically it's a K7 with its hard edges smoothed out: sophisticated branch predictor, slightly longer pipeline, and most of all the integrated memory controller which removed the main bottleneck, the EV6 front side bus. |
 | | Now some people is claming that Conroe is just a P6, but IMHO it is probably "half generation" ahead of K7/K8, micro/macro op fusion, out of order loads and memory disambiguation are impressive features, beside being just wider/fatter in issue and execution. |
 | | You can say for example that Prescott was an important (and unfortunate) evolution from Northwood, due to the significantly longer pipeline and architectural enhancements to counter the performance penalty there incurred. |
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