Performance of Image and Video Processing with General-Purpose Processors and Media ISA Extensions

This paper aims to provide a quantitative understanding of the performance of image and video processing applications on general-purpose processors, without and with media ISA extensions. We use detailed simulation of 12 benchmarks to study the effectiveness of current architectural features and identify future challenges for these workloads. Our results show that conventional techniques in current processors to enhance instruction-level parallelism (ILP) provide a factor of 2.3X to 4.2X performance improvement. The Sun VIS media ISA extensions provide an ad

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1999
• Where: ISCA
• Authors: Parthasarathy Ranganathan, Sarita V. Adve, Norman P. Jouppi
• Keywords: General-purpose Processors, Hardware, ISCA 1999, Media Isa Extensions, Sun VIS Media