Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 08:42:53 10/27/05
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On October 27, 2005 at 10:19:38, Vincent Lejeune wrote: >On October 27, 2005 at 10:11:41, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On October 27, 2005 at 09:54:12, Jasmine Baer wrote: >> >>>Thank you, Dr. Hyatt. I appreciate your response. >> >> >>I could add, in testing Crafty on 512K and 1024K chips, the speed difference was >>in the 7% range. The price difference was a factor of 2.0 different. :) > >Are you sure it's so big ? > >I see : >Athlon 64 X2 4800+ (1 MB) : $1,001 >Athlon 64 X2 4600+ (512 KB) : $803 > >http://hardware.gamespot.com/Story-ST-17478-1945-x-x-x I saw Intel xeon 700mhz 512K $1300 Intel xeon 700mhz 1024K $2600 Intel xeon 700mhz 2048K $5500 several years ago. I have seen similar pricing for newer xeons. Even if doubling cache costs only 50% more (rather than nearly 100% as above) the 7% speedup (with crafty, YMMV with other programs) really makes it not worthwhile from a price/performance basis...
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