(Not Homework!!) This is my processor : Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3210M CPU @ 2.50GHz
Number of cores : 2
I was reading FLOPS I came across a questions that asks calculate cycles /issue for floating point additions for 1 core.(I know the number of cores I have) Should I study the architecture of my machine and calculate the cycles???)
I am not sure what is an issue(an instruction??), and how would you calculate the cycles? I would appreciate it if someone could hint me in on it.
Thank you.
According to the Intel Optimization Manual without SIMD instructions it should be 1 cycle/issue
Intel Core i5 is based on Intel microarchitecture code name Westmere (06_25H, 06_2CH and 06_2FH), which supports SSE. With SSE instructions you should get double throughput, and if it supports VXA you would get 4x.