When we say a design "scales", that means that increasing the size of the workload does not incur a lot of overhead. If contention between shared resources meant that the design was not able to achieve an ~8x speedup…
>Instead of discrete, fully independent cores, AMD grouped processing units into "Modules" where each module contained two integer execution units, but they had to share critical resources like one FPU, the instruction…
When we say a design "scales", that means that increasing the size of the workload does not incur a lot of overhead. If contention between shared resources meant that the design was not able to achieve an ~8x speedup…
>Instead of discrete, fully independent cores, AMD grouped processing units into "Modules" where each module contained two integer execution units, but they had to share critical resources like one FPU, the instruction…