Part of requirement for the course E0243: Computer Architecture

Summary

Summarized the performance and micro-architecture of Intel/AMD processors on SPEC FP and INT Benchmarks of 2017 using perf and hardware counters. Used Normalized Cycle count, IPC, Branch Prediction Performance, L2 Data TLB hit rate, L2 cache performance, percentage wasted work as metrics for a detailed comparison analysis. Also designed a micro-benchmark aimed at maximizing branch mispredictions that achieved a miss rate of 33%.

The project report can be found here.