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AMD's Strix Point: Zen 5 Hits Mobile
AMD’s Zen line has gone a long way since it brought AMD’s CPU efforts back from the dead. Successive Zen generations delivered steady improvements that made AMD an increasingly dangerou…
It’s a continuation of AMD’s mild hybrid strategy, where different cache sizes and physical implementations help the company optimize multithreaded performance while keeping area under control. Intel’s Golden Cove has similar behavior for the exact address match case, but can’t do zero latency forwarding if both the load and store cross a 64B boundary. Considering other significant changes like a clustered frontend, different scheduler layout, more execution units, and extra cache bandwidth makes me feel like Zen 5 involved a lot of engineering effort.
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