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Instruction Throughput on Skylake
Author: Agner Date: 2016-04-24 00:02
Nathan Kurz wrote:
Did you happen to do any tests that would confirm whether Skylake might be able to sustain 5 or 6 unfused instructions per cycle (thus possibly 7 or 8 including fused branches not taken) if the correct execution ports are available?
NOPs have a throughput of 4 per clock cycle, and NOPs are not using any execution unit. I have never seen a higher throughput than 4 if you count a fused jump as one instruction. If two threads are running in the same core then each thread gets 2 NOPs per clock.

It is possible that the decoders have a higher throughput, but then there must be a bottleneck somewhere else. This will be hard to verify.

 
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