Comparison of Multicore Processors

 PROCESSOR
SCORPIO
Intel
Core i7
AMD
Opteron
Tilera TILE64
Oracle
T5
Intel
Xeon E7
 
Clock Frequency
1 GHz (833 MHz
post-layout)
 2-3.3 GHz
2.1-3.6 GHz 
750 MHz
3.6 GHz
2.1-2.7 GHz
Power Supply 1.1 V 1.0 V 1.0 V 1.0 V   1.0 V
Power Consumption 28.8 W 45-130 W 115-140 W 15-22 W   130 W
Lithography 45nm SOI 45nm 32nm SOI 90nm 28nm 32nm
Core Count 36 4-8 4-16 64 16 6-10
ISA
Power
x86
x86
MIPS-derived
VLIW
SPARC
x86
 
Cache Hierarchy            
L1D 16 KB private 32 KB private 16 KB private 8 KB private 16 KB private 32 KB private
L1I
16 KB private
32 KB private
64 KB shared
among 2 cores
8 KB private
16 KB private
32 KB private
L2
128 KB private
256 KB private
2 MB shared
among 2 cores
64 KB private
128 KB private
256 KB private
L3 N/A 8 MB shared 16 MB shared N/A 8 MB 18-30 MB shared
 
Consistency Model Sequential Consistency Processor Processor Relaxed Relaxed Processor
Coherency
Snoopy
Snoopy
Broadcast-based
directory (HT)
Directory
Directory
Snoopy
Interconnect
6 X 6 Mesh
Point-to-Point (QPI)
Point-to-Point
(HyperTransport)
5 8 X 8 Meshes
8 X 9 Crossbar 
Ring