| Basic Performance Measurements for AMD Athlon 64_252C AMD Opteron and AMD Phenom Processors. [2008-0 | | Basic Performance Measurements for AMD AthlonTM 64,
AMD OpteronTM and AMD PhenomTM Processors
Paul J. Drongowski
AMD CodeAnalystTM Performance Analyzer Development Team
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Boston Design Center
25 September 2008
1. Introduction.
Good performance is crucial to many applications. Program performance tuning is a multifaceted
activity grounded in measurement and analysis. Measurement provides an objective basis for
assessment and comparison of the performance aspects of program design and implementation.
AMD processors offer extensive features to enable performance measurement. These features
use hardware counters to measure performance-related events caused by user- or kernel-level
software. Event counts help a systems engineer or software developer to identify the likely cause
of a performance issue.
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