Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 08:04:39 09/10/04
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On September 10, 2004 at 10:39:57, David Rasmussen wrote: >On September 10, 2004 at 10:05:05, Evgeny Shu wrote: > >>if it is 1$ more you can buy it ... if not then I suggest not to waste money > >What do you base this on? Double 2nd-level cache usually is important for chess >programs such as Crafty? > >/David I have not compared AMD processors as I don't have access to anything but the 1mb l2 cache opterons I have been playing with. Going from 512K to 1024K on intel xeons was worth about 10% in speed. So you won't get a lot of extra performance. The issue will be how much more does the larger L2 cost?
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