Will using Vectorization speed up the program?

[ivanpribec]

@RonShepard

Does anyone have memory bandwidth numbers handy for RAM, level-2 cache, and level-1 cache for some of the current intel, AMD, and ARM cpus?

Just reposting the graph here from the other thread.

(Full set of slides on the topic can be found here: NHR PerfLab Seminar: A Review of Processor Advances Over the Past Thirty Years)