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Subject: Re: P4-2.53 *New Xeon's _have_ 512 L2 cache *

Author: David Dory

Date: 20:02:19 07/18/02

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On July 18, 2002 at 17:46:08, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On July 18, 2002 at 16:46:21, David Dory wrote:
>
>>On July 18, 2002 at 09:35:12, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>The bigger L2 cache is of course a joke for computerchess when running single
>>>cpu. The P4 Xeons do not have 512KB but 256KB L2 cache.
>>>
>>
>>Go back to hardwareanalysis.com and click on the "Intel announces 2.4G Xeon's"
>>link on the left border of the page.
>>
>>David
>
>
>So far as I know, _all_ xeons have had 512kb L2 minimum.  When I bought
>my 4 700's, the only choices were 1M and 2M, the 512kb option was not
>available...

This is copied from the Intel Corp. Website, today. Apparently they have 3 (at
least) versions of Xeon's, with up to L3 on chip cache. Sizes of L2 are either
512Kb or 256Kb, for the XeonMP at this time, apparently. Guess Vincent and
Hardwareanalysis were both right about L2 cache sizes.


Intel® Xeon™ Processor with 256 KB L2 Cache Intel® Xeon™ Processor with 512 KB
L2 Cache

Supports Dual Processor Workstation designs. Supports Dual Processor Workstation
and Server designs.

Compatible with Intel® 860 Chipset. Compatible with both

New: Intel® E7500 Chipset for Servers and Intel® 860 Chipset for Workstations.

-- New: 512 KB L2 Cache.

Speeds at 1.40, 1.50, 1.70 and 2 GHz. New: Speeds avaliable at 1.80, 2, 2.20,
and 2.40 GHz.

Intel® NetBurst™ Microarchitecture. Intel® NetBurst™ Microarchitecture.
-- New: Hyper-Threading Technology: Hardware support currently targeted for
multi-threaded server applications.

Streaming SIMD Extensions 2. Streaming SIMD Extensions 2.
Compatible with existing Intel Architecture-based software. Compatible with
existing Intel Architecture-based software.

David



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