The Alpha 21264: A 500 MHz Out-of-Order Execution Microprocessor

  • Authors:
  • Daniel Leibholz;Rahul Razdan

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • COMPCON '97 Proceedings of the 42nd IEEE International Computer Conference
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

This paper describes the internal organization of the 21264, a 500 MHz, Out-Of-Order, quad-fetch, six-way issue microprocessor. The aggressive cycle-time of the 21264 in combination with many architectural innovations, such as out-of-order and speculative execution, enable this microprocessor to deliver an estimated 30 SpecInt95 and 50 SpecFp95 performance. In addition, the 21264 can sustain 5+ Gigabytes/sec of bandwidth to an L2 cache and 3+ Gigabytes/sec to memory for high performance on memory-intensive applications.