The microarchitecture of Intel, AMD and VIA CPUs

by Agner Fog

The present manual describes the details of the microarchitectures of x86 microprocessors from Intel and AMD. The Itanium processor is not covered. The purpose of this manual is to enable assembly programmers and compiler makers to optimize software for a specific microprocessor. The main focus is on details that are relevant to calculations of how much time a piece of code takes to execute, such as the latencies of different execution units and the throughputs of various parts of the pipelines. Branch prediction algorithms are also covered in detail.

300 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 11, 2018