2011 Intel introduced the Sandy Bridge architecture to the Intel processor family Chip (I7,I5,I3) in the second-generation Turadin.
Sandy Bridge was built successfully on the core and Nehalem architecture. It provides the following innovative features:
Intel advanced Vector Extension "Intel Advanced Vector Extensions (Intel AVX)"
-The 256-bit floating-point instruction set expands to 128 for Intel data Streaming SIMD extensions, up to twice times the performance of 128-bit code.
-Non-destructive target coding provides more flexibility in coding techniques.
-Support for flexible migration 256-bit AVX code, 128-bit AVX code and legacy 128-bit SSE code can exist simultaneously
Enhanced front-end and execution engine
-The new decoding cache component increases the bandwidth of the front-end and lowers the penalty for branch prediction failures.
-Advanced Branch Prediction
-Additional macro-fusion support
-A larger dynamic execution window.
-Multi-precision plastic arithmetic enhancement (ADC/SBB, Mul/imul).
-lea bandwidth enhancement.
-reduction of general execution stalls (read port, writeback, write conflict, bypass latency, partial stalls).
-Fast floating-point exception handling.
-xsave/xrstore performance Promotion and xsaveopt new instructions.
Caching architecture provides a wider range of data processing paths
-Doubled bandwidth enhancement through 2 symmetric ports for memory operations
-Fast load and store can be processed simultaneously by adding buffers
-I 2 load and 1 times store internal bandwidth per cycle.
-Improve prefetch performance
-High bandwidth low latency LLC architecture.
-The internal interconnect at the chip level provides a high-bandwidth surround architecture.