3 votes 3 votes closed as a duplicate of: Pipeline Efficiency Actually, In this problem what will, we consider getting the answer(upper bound or lower bound) and why? CO and Architecture pipelining co-and-architecture speedup + – thepeeyoosh asked Jan 13, 2018 • closed Jan 13, 2018 by saxena0612 thepeeyoosh 721 views comment Share Follow See all 2 Comments See all 2 2 Comments reply sunnykg commented May 20, 2018 reply Follow Share TAKE UPPERBOUND K=7 0 votes 0 votes sachin486 commented Jul 24, 2020 reply Follow Share Efficiency = Speedup / Stages => Stages = 5.4 / 0.82 = 6.58 Take stages = 6, then efficiency = 90% and taking stages = 7, efficiency = 77.14% Hence, Stages = 6 is better here as efficiency >= 90% 0 votes 0 votes Please log in or register to add a comment.