Author: K. Burcham
Date: 06:10:46 02/11/03
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will not help chess. if you find a benchtest where two processors are compared, one with large L1 or L2 cache, the other with small L1 or L2 cache, the speed is amazing----way above what we are used to when we think of a certain mhz. When the processor is filling this on-die cache it can be very fast, but it fills very quick, and then the speed tapers off to what we consider normal for that mhz. it seems that the "bottleneck" for todays cpu is the buss and "pipelines" between the on-die cache, the ram, and the cpu. Athlon XP model number: 3000+ Cache Size: L1 - 128KB and L2 - 512KB = 640KB Total Cache Approximate Transistor count: 54.3 million Athlon XP model number: 2800+ Cache Size: L1 - 128KB and L2 - 256KB = 384KB Total Cache Transistor count: Approx: 37.6 million "Sandra 2002's CPU benchmarks have always been popular. Here we see no difference in performance due to a larger L2 as was expected". http://www.amdzone.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=1240 lots of info on the internet about these benchtests comparing cache. kburcham
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