Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 22:55:11 08/03/00
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On August 03, 2000 at 22:20:55, stuart taylor wrote: >On August 03, 2000 at 21:13:46, Tom Kerrigan wrote: > >>On August 03, 2000 at 20:21:14, stuart taylor wrote: >> >>>On August 03, 2000 at 19:23:37, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >>> >>>>On August 03, 2000 at 18:59:54, stuart taylor wrote: >>>> >>>>>On August 03, 2000 at 14:26:49, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>On August 03, 2000 at 01:22:18, stuart taylor wrote:>>256k L2 cache is better than regular Athlons 512k? >> >>I believe that HIARCS would run faster on the old Athlon because it has a bigger >>cache. HIARCS runs extremely fast on Power Macs with 1MB of L2 cache. >> >>> >>-Tom > >So size of L2 cache, and its speed, ARE two different things then!? >S.Taylor Yes. The cartridges of old Athlons contain several chips. One is the processor and the rest are the L2 cache. The L2 cache runs at some fraction of the processor's clock speed, like 1/2 or 1/3. The Tbird is one chip and it has L2 cache built-in. Because it's on the same chip, the L2 cache runs at the same frequency as the processor. The Tbird's cache is faster because it's closer to the processor and it runs at a higher frequency. -Tom
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