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, 64-bit)

Test 1: uops

Code:

  sub x0, x0, x1
  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 x0, x0, x1
  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 x0, x1, x0
  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
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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 4: throughput

Count: 8

Code:

  sub x0, x8, x9
  sub x1, x8, x9
  sub x2, x8, x9
  sub x3, x8, x9
  sub x4, x8, x9
  sub x5, x8, x9
  sub x6, x8, x9
  sub x7, x8, x9
  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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1000 unrolls and 10 iterations

Result (median cycles for code divided by count): 0.3340

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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