AMD K10 Quad Core

**Annabell** · Aug 18, 2007, 09:04am

AMD K10 Micro-Architecture

AMD promises to introduce its new quad-core processors with K10 micro-architecture in the end of August – beginning of September this year ! please read more at Source (11 page review)

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The FPU of K10 processor became much more flexible. It acquired some unique features that Intel processors don’t have yet, namely, efficient unaligned loading, including Load-Execute instructions, and two 128-bit reads per clock cycle. Unlike Core 2, floating-point and integer schedulers use separate queues. Separate queues eliminate operations conflicts caused by use of the same execution ports. However, K10 still shares the FSTORE unit for SSE save operations with some data transformation instructions, which may sometimes affect their processing speed.
All in all, the K10 FPU promises to be pretty efficient and more advanced than the FPU of Core 2 (for example, thanks to two 128-bit reads per clock and effective unaligned loading).

Independent core frequency management in K10 processors.

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