Author: Torstein Hall
Date: 06:56:17 03/30/04
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On March 30, 2004 at 00:54:09, Slater Wold wrote: >On March 30, 2004 at 00:50:25, Nolan Denson wrote: > >>Below is some infor on Intels Processors .. I just found that the processor i >>thought i had was not the Prescott core .... So i am wondering should i keep the >>Northwood core. I am only worried about playing chess. >> >>The internal architecture is where the Prescott really differs from the previous >>Northwood core design. The most prominent change has been to double the cache >>levels, where the Prescott core features a full 16K of L1 cache (8K for the >>Northwood) and a full 1-MB of L2 cache (512K - Northwood). There are other >>smaller changes, such as the 8-way associative L1 cache of the Prescott (4-way >>associative for the Northwood), while the 1-MB L2 cache retains the same 8-way >>associative format as the Northwood. The Prescott core is built upon a 90nm >>(0.09-micron) process technology, and will allow Intel to increase clock speeds >>and lower core voltages more significantly than the older 0.13-micron Northwood >>core would allow. > >The Prescott should be decent for chess. But still suck compared to AMD. The Precott has a better branch prediction than Nortwood, but the longer pipeline (from 10 to 20 stages?) would suggest that a missprediction would be even more costly. So I would expect it to perform even worse..... Torstein
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