Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 14:01:36 06/13/00
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On June 13, 2000 at 15:55:24, Mogens Larsen wrote: >On June 13, 2000 at 15:41:51, Tom Kerrigan wrote: > >>No, Thunderbird is a few % faster than an Athlon at same MHz. >> >>Duron is exactly the same as Tbird, but with 1/4 the L2 cache (64k). >> >>-Tom > >I've just purchased an ordinary Athlon. What are the advantages and >disadvantages with a smaller cache size. BTW, are the L2 cache of the >Thunderbird and the Athlon fullspeed? > >Best wishes... >Mogens The Tbird and Duron both have on-die "full speed" L2 caches, but they are not that much faster than the old off-die caches. Most benchmark scores improve by a few percent, but nothing like when Intel moved the PIII cache on-die. The main benefit of the on-die cache is that it makes the processors much cheaper to manufacture. Another, less significant benefit is that the cache performance can now scale with the processor performance. -Tom
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