Author: Keith Conary
Date: 08:22:08 03/24/00
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On March 23, 2000 at 18:07:27, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >On March 23, 2000 at 15:36:02, Keith Conary wrote: > >>Can you produce any studies that prove cache has little or no effect on games as >>a whole? I think the effects of cache would be totally dependent on how the > >I'm sorry, I was being ambiguous. > >I was thinking of 3D games, a la Quake. I think these games randomly access >several megabytes worth of sprites, so cache does not help much. > >Take a look at this page: > >http://www7.tomshardware.com/cpu/98q3/980824/index-05.html > >Notice that the original Celeron, with no L2 cache at all, still performs in the >same ballpark as the "cachy" processors. > >And the Mendocino Celeron (with on-die cache) performs exactly as well as the >Pentium II. > >If you're talking about chess programs, L2 cache size and performance will >affect them dramatically. The new Athlons with on-die L2 cache will be great for >chess. > >-Tom Thanks Tom for the info and link!
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