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

SUB (register, 32-bit)

Test 1: uops

Code:

  sub w0, w0, w1
  mov x0, 1
  mov x1, 2

(no loop instructions)

1000 unrolls and 1 iteration

Retires: 1.000

Issues: 1.000

Integer unit issues: 1.001

Load/store unit issues: 0.000

SIMD/FP unit issues: 0.000

retire uop (01)cycle (02)schedule uop (52)schedule int uop (53)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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Test 2: Latency 1->2

Code:

  sub w0, w0, w1
  mov x0, 1
  mov x1, 2

(fused SUBS/B.cc loop)

100 unrolls and 100 iterations

Result (median cycles for code): 1.0030

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): 1.0030

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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Test 3: Latency 1->3

Code:

  sub w0, w1, w0
  mov x0, 1
  mov x1, 2

(fused SUBS/B.cc loop)

100 unrolls and 100 iterations

Result (median cycles for code): 1.0030

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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10204100301010110101101072595391010710212202241000110100
10204100301010110101101072595391010710212202241000110100
10204100301010110101101072595391010710212202241000110100
10204100301010110101101072595391010710212202241000110100
10204100301010110101101072595391010710212202241000110100
10204100301010110101101072595391010710212202241000110100
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10204100301010110101101072595391010710212202241000110100

1000 unrolls and 10 iterations

Result (median cycles for code): 1.0030

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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10024100301002110021100202595911002010020200201001110010
10024100301002110021100202595911002010020200201001110010

Test 4: throughput

Count: 8

Code:

  sub w0, w8, w9
  sub w1, w8, w9
  sub w2, w8, w9
  sub w3, w8, w9
  sub w4, w8, w9
  sub w5, w8, w9
  sub w6, w8, w9
  sub w7, w8, w9
  mov x8, 9
  mov x9, 10

(fused SUBS/B.cc loop)

100 unrolls and 100 iterations

Result (median cycles for code divided by count): 0.3342

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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802042673780115801158012024036080120802241602488001580100

1000 unrolls and 10 iterations

Result (median cycles for code divided by count): 0.3339

retire uop (01)cycle (02)schedule uop (52)schedule int uop (53)dispatch int uop (56)dispatch ldst uop (58)int uops in schedulers (59)simd uops in schedulers (5a)dispatch uop (78)map int uop (7c)map ldst uop (7d)map int uop inputs (7f)? int output thing (e9)? int retires (ef)
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