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Subject: Re: Processor's

Author: Eugene Nalimov

Date: 10:34:33 06/17/04

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On June 17, 2004 at 13:29:02, Anthony Cozzie wrote:

>On June 17, 2004 at 13:20:40, Eugene Nalimov wrote:
>
>>On June 17, 2004 at 06:55:18, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>>
>>>[...]
>>>
>>>Please list the processors in order of L2 cache speed and you'll realize that
>>>speed still is of overwhelming importance. List them at random access speed for
>>>L2 cache (some processors are faster in streaming than random access in their
>>>caches like P4).
>>>
>>>Basically opteron has fastest L2 cache which can deliver each 13 cycles data (4
>>>reads simultaneously even if i understand well). No other processor can deliver
>>>data from L2 cache that fast.
>>
>>Intel Itanium 2 Processor Reference Manual For Software Development and
>>Optimization, Table 6-4 "Cache Summary":
>>
>>Itanium2 cache latency:
>>  L1: 1 cycle, 4 loads/cycle
>>  L2: 5 cycles (integer loads), 4 loads/cycle
>>  L3: 12/14 cycles, depending on cache size (integer loads), 1 load/cycle
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Eugene
>>
>
>Correct me if I am wrong, but aren't Itanium's caches off by 1?  In other words,
>the 6MB cache on the Itanium is L3, and the L1 cache is like 1KB?

L1D: 16KB
L1I: 16KB
L2:  256KB
L3:  1.5/3/6MB

Thanks,
Eugene

>It is really amazing to me that Intel can't clock Itanium at 3+ GHZ.
>
>anthony



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