Low Power War, Round 3: Performance on BOINC

[Dirk Broer]

Feature	AMD AM1	AMD since	Year	Intel Bay Trail	Intel Brasswell	Intel since	Year
MMX	Yes	AMD K6	1997	Yes	Yes	P5 Pentium MMX	1996
SSE	Yes	AMD K8 Athlon 64 Clawhammer/Sledgehammer	2003	Yes	Yes	Pentium III	1999
SSE2	Yes	AMD K8 Athlon 64 Clawhammer/Sledgehammer	2003	Yes	Yes	Pentium 4 Willamette	2000
AMD64/EM64T	Yes	AMD K8 Athlon 64 Clawhammer/Sledgehammer	2003	Yes	Yes	Pentium 4 Prescott	2004
SSE3	Yes	AMD K8 Athlon 64 Venice/San Diego	2005	Yes	Yes	Pentium 4 Prescott	2004
AMD-V/Intel-VTx	Yes	AMD K8 Athlon 64 Orleans/Windsor	2006	Yes	Yes	Pentium 4 Prescott	2004
SSE4a	Yes	AMD K10 Barcelona Phenom Agena	2007	No	No
BMI1	Yes	AMD K10 Barcelona Phenom II Thuban	2010	No	No	Intel Core2 Nehalem	2008
SSSE3	Yes	AMD Bulldozer	2011	Yes	Yes	Intel Core1 (Xeon Woodcrest)	2006
SSE4.1	Yes	AMD Bulldozer	2011	Yes	Yes	Intel Core2 Penryn	2007
SSE4.2	Yes	AMD Bulldozer	2011	Yes	Yes	Intel Core2 Nehalem	2008
AES(e.g. CLMUL)	Yes	AMD Bulldozer	2011	No	No	Intel Xeon Gulftown (Westmere-EP)	2010
AVX	Yes	AMD Bulldozer	2011	No	No	Intel Core2 Sandy Bridge	2011
F16C	Yes	AMD Bulldozer	2011	No	No	Intel Core2 Ivy Bridge	2012

In the next round Intel will introduce its Apollo Lake SOCs, while AMD will hopefully have a new 25 Watt TDP (or less) Stoney Ridge SOC for Socket AM4
(or, preferably, still for Socket AM1, since memory controller, north- and southbridge are all integrated in the SOC)

[vaughan]

How about FMA3 so we can do some LLR work?

[Dirk Broer]

How about FMA3 so we can do some LLR work?

CPUs with FMA3

AMD introduced FMA3 support in processors starting with Piledriver architecture for compatibility reasons.
The 2nd generation APU processors, based on "Trinity" (32nm) supporting FMA3 instructions, were launched May 15, 2012.
The 2nd generation Bulldozer processors, with Piledriver cores supporting FMA3 instructions, were launched October 23, 2012.

Intel introduced hardware FMA3 in processors based on Haswell during as late as 2013.

So as yet no FMA3 (or FMA4) in the budget department...