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Light activity yields higher precharge residency. DRAM activity is estimated using the<br />

DCTAccess metric. <strong>The</strong> sum of all DCT accesses on both channels (hit, miss and<br />

conflict) correlates positively to active DRAM power and negatively to precharge power<br />

savings. In most workloads this approach gave error of less than 10%. <strong>The</strong> two outliers<br />

were the CPU subtests of 3DMark06. Due to many of the memory transactions being<br />

spaced at intervals just slightly shorter than the precharge power down entry time, the<br />

model underestimates power <strong>by</strong> a larger margin. Higher accuracy would require a direct<br />

measurement of pre-charge power down residency or temporal locality of memory<br />

transactions. An example of model versus measured Memory power <strong>for</strong> SYSmark 2007-<br />

3D is provided in Figure 5.8. <strong>The</strong> modeled power as a function of the DRAM channel<br />

access rate (DCTAccess/sec) and Hypertransport activity percentage (LinkActive%) is<br />

given in Equation 5.8. Additional details <strong>for</strong> the equation components, DCTAccess/sec<br />

and LinkActive percent are given in section 5.3.3.<br />

Watts<br />

3<br />

2<br />

DIMM Power =<br />

4x10 -8 x DCTAccess/sec + 0.7434 x LinkActive% + 0.24<br />

Measured<br />

Modeled<br />

Error<br />

(5.8)<br />

100%<br />

1<br />

0<br />

4 cores<br />

accessing DRAM<br />

1 core<br />

accessing DRAM<br />

-50%<br />

-100%<br />

0 100 200 300 400<br />

Seconds<br />

500 600 700<br />

Figure 5.8 DRAM Power Model (∑DCT Access, LinkActive) – SYSmark 2007-3D<br />

97<br />

50%<br />

0%<br />

Error(%)

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