Intel's Haswell Architecture Analyzed: Building a New PC and a New Intel
by Anand Lal Shimpi on October 5, 2012 2:45 AM ESTFeeding the Beast: 2x Cache Bandwidth in Haswell
With an outright doubling of peak FP throughput in Haswell, Intel had to ensure that the execution units had ample bandwidth to the caches to sustain performance. As a result L1 bandwidth is doubled, as is the interface between the L1 and L2 caches.
L1/L2 cache latencies and sizes remain unchanged. The same isn't true for the L3 cache however.
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CaptainDoug - Friday, October 5, 2012 - link
Quite the read. Very informational. Anandtech has some of the best tech writers. True online journalism. Sometimes i miss that while reading tech blogs... You guys are a cut above.. at least one.colonelclaw - Friday, October 5, 2012 - link
Couldn't agree more, this article really brightened up what was otherwise a pretty miserable afternoon here in London.When am I going to be able to walk into a shop and buy something with Haswell inside it? Next March maybe?
Kepe - Friday, October 5, 2012 - link
As stated in the article, Haswell is coming in the summer of 2013.linuxlowdown - Saturday, October 6, 2012 - link
Tag team Intel fanboy puke.Azethoth - Sunday, October 7, 2012 - link
How do I downvote stupid crap like this "Tag team Intel fanboy puke." comment so that collectively we can see high quality comments without having to wade through the interturds as well? It really takes away from the best article I have read in a long time. Not because it is about Intel, but because it is about the state of the art.medi01 - Tuesday, October 9, 2012 - link
Well, I'd also ask how do I downvote stupid butt kissing like OP, while we are at rating....Kisper - Saturday, October 20, 2012 - link
Many people enjoy well written and informative articles. Are you telling me that if you wrote, you would not enjoy positive feedback from your readers?CaptainDoug - Tuesday, October 23, 2012 - link
Exactly.actionjksn - Sunday, October 7, 2012 - link
Why are you even on this article dumb fuck? I'm sure there is something that is of interest to you on the internet somewhere.medi01 - Tuesday, October 9, 2012 - link
Not sure about him, but I've looked into this article to figure power targets for haswell (especially interesting to compare to ARM crowd), NOT to read orgasmic comments about eternal wizdom of Intel's engineering...