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Subject: Re: transistor count and kns

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 10:16:16 07/03/05

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On July 03, 2005 at 13:09:54, Dan Andersson wrote:

>On July 03, 2005 at 12:17:20, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>
>>I find these to be actually pretty interesting figures. There is also a direct
>>relation to Watts/knps assuming same size process technologies.
> The comparision might be a bit rough. Especially since the AMD CPUs have an
>intergrated memory controller. I don't know the exact wattage or transistor
>count. But it is a factor.
>>
>>Does anyone have transistor counts / knps figures for modern ARM and PowerPC
>>CPU's? I would assume ARM to deliver easily the most bang-for-the-buck.
> PPC 970FX has about 58 million transistors.
>
> As for the ARM CPU there are so many different implementations that it is hard
>to get all the numbers.

If we take ARM1 it's 25 000 ;-) But not a very relevant number.

XScale, commonly found in PocketPC's, would give a good indication.
I couldn't find exact counts though, but it seems 2 to 6 million.

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GCP



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