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http://blogs.sun.com/timc/date/20080421 Monday April 21, 2008

Comparing the UltraSPARC T2 Plus to Other Recent SPARC Processors

Update - now the UltraSPARC T2 Plus has been released, and is available in several new several Sun servers. Allan Packer has published a new collection of blog entries that provide lots of detail.

Here is my updated table of details comparing a number of current SPARC processors. I can not guarantee 100% accuracy on this, but I did quite a bit of reading...

Name UltraSPARC IV+® SPARC64TM VI UltraSPARCTM T1 UltraSPARCTM T2 UltraSPARCTM T2 Plus
Codename Panther Olympus-C Niagara Niagara 2 Victoria Falls
Physical
process 90nm 90nm 90nm 65nm 65nm
die size 335 mm2 421 mm2 379 mm2 342 mm2
pins 1368 1933 1831
transistors 295 M 540 M 279 M 503 M
clock 1.5 – 2.1 GHz 2.15 – 2.4 GHz 1.0 – 1.4 GHz 1.0 – 1.4 GHz 1.2 – 1.4 GHz
Architecture
cores 2 2 8 8 8
threads/core 1 2 4 8 8
threads/chip 2 4 32 64 64
FPU : IU 1 : 1 1 : 1 1 : 8 1 : 1 1 : 1
integration 8 × small crypto 8 × large crypto, PCI-E, 2 × 10Gbe 8 × large crypto, PCI-E, multi-socket coherency
virtualization domains1 hypervisor
L1 i$ 64K/core 128K/core 16K/core
L1 d$ 64K/core 128K/core 8K/core
L2 cache (on-chip) 2MB, shared, 4-way, 64B lines 6MB, shared, 10-way, 256B lines 3MB, shared, 12-way, 64B lines 4MB, shared, 16-way, 64B lines
L3 cache 32MB shared, 4-way, tags on-chip, 64B lines n/a n/a
MMU on-chip
on-chip, 4 × DDR2 on-chip, 4 × FB-DIMM on-chip, 2 × FB-DIMM
Memory Models TSO TSO TSO, limited RMO
Physical Address Space 43 bits 47 bits 40 bits
i-TLB 16 FA + 512 2-way SA 64 FA
d-TLB 16 FA + 512 2-way SA 64 FA 128 FA
combined TLB 32 FA + 2048 2-way SA
Page sizes 8K, 64K, 512K, 4M, 32M, 256M 8K, 64K, 512K, 4M, 32M, 256M 8K, 64K, 4M, 256M
Memory bandwidth2 (GB/sec) 9.6 25.6 60+ 32

Footnotes

  • 1 - domains are implemented above the processor/chip level
  • 2 - theoretical peak - does not take cache coherency or other limits into account

Glossary

  • FA - fully-associative
  • FPU - Floating Point Unit
  • i-TLB - Instruction Translation Lookaside Buffer (d means Data)
  • IU - Integer (execution) Unit
  • L1 - Level 1 (similarly for L2, L3)
  • MMU - Memory Management Unit
  • RMO - Relaxed Memory Order
  • SA - set-associative
  • TSO - Total Store Order

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Posted at 12:12PM Apr 21, 2008 by timc in Performance  |  Comments[1]

Comments:

What about ROCK? It would be nice to see it listed along with the other high performance processors Sun has developed.

Posted by Lamparelli on May 05, 2008 at 07:11 AM PDT #

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