Apple Microarchitecture Research by Dougall Johnson

M1/A14 P-core (Firestorm): Overview | Base Instructions | SIMD and FP Instructions
M1/A14 E-core (Icestorm):  Overview | Base Instructions | SIMD and FP Instructions

MOVZ (64-bit)

Test 1: uops

Code:

  movz x0, #0x1234, lsl 16
  nop ; nop ; nop

(no loop instructions)

1000 unrolls and 1 iteration

Retires (minus 3 nops): 1.000

Issues: 0.000

Integer unit issues: 0.001

Load/store unit issues: 0.000

SIMD/FP unit issues: 0.000

retire uop (01)cycle (02)schedule uop (52)schedule int uop (53)map int uop (7c)? int output thing (e9)? int retires (ef)
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Test 2: throughput

Count: 8

Code:

  movz x0, #0x1234, lsl 16
  movz x1, #0x1234, lsl 16
  movz x2, #0x1234, lsl 16
  movz x3, #0x1234, lsl 16
  movz x4, #0x1234, lsl 16
  movz x5, #0x1234, lsl 16
  movz x6, #0x1234, lsl 16
  movz x7, #0x1234, lsl 16

(fused SUBS/B.cc loop)

100 unrolls and 100 iterations

Result (median cycles for code divided by count): 0.2513

retire uop (01)cycle (02)schedule uop (52)schedule int uop (53)dispatch int uop (56)int uops in schedulers (59)dispatch uop (78)map int uop (7c)map int uop inputs (7f)? int output thing (e9)? int retires (ef)
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1000 unrolls and 10 iterations

Result (median cycles for code divided by count): 0.2507

retire uop (01)cycle (02)schedule uop (52)schedule int uop (53)dispatch int uop (56)int uops in schedulers (59)dispatch uop (78)map int uop (7c)map int uop inputs (7f)? int output thing (e9)? int retires (ef)
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