Author: Eelco de Groot
Date: 21:05:32 02/19/00
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On February 19, 2000 at 23:51:20, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >On February 19, 2000 at 23:30:25, Eelco de Groot wrote: > >>I just posted on Rebel Board the impression I had that the K-6 III has "on die" >>L2 cache (For people even more layman than me: small, fast piece of memory for >>fast access by the CPU of which there are different "levels", L1, L2, L3) and >>therefore was faster, for Rebel at least, than K-6 II. Do you think the >>difference for TSCP to be much smaller? > >Yes. > >If you look at my TSCP benchmark page, you can see that a 200MHz Pentium runs >TSCP just as fast as a 200MHz Pentium MMX. > >The Pentium MMX has more L1 cache than the regular Pentium, so that means TSCP >will run (almost) entirely out of 16k of cache. > >So the fast L2 cache of the K6-3 should not make a difference for TSCP. It will >make a difference for some other programs, though. (Rebel is evidently one of >them.) > >-Tom Thanks, Tom I will go take a look at your benchmark page. I know I have stored the link to your pages somewhere. Eelco The Rebel benchmarkpage with also new results for Athlon 1000MHZ is at: http://www.rebel.nl/bench.htm
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