Originally posted by leonmaxx
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The goal is not to achieve the lowest IPC, but to achieve the best performance -- a balance between frequency and IPC -- in the same amount of real clock time. If you can execute 20 instructions in 5 cycles within 1 second, but at the cost of doing so, you could not run your processor at higher frequencies, why would that be better than a design executing 30 instructions in 10 cycles within 1 second?
In other words, you can't make the amateur mistake of comparing two entirely different architectures with one measurement alone. There's more to a CPU than IPC...
The rest of your junk is nonsense. This is Linux, and this is Phoronix -- this is not the place for your Windows-based website which is more than likely already running an Intel-biased Microsoft OS with Intel-biased benchmarking software.
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