Author: Alain Lyrette
Date: 03:58:18 07/07/99
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On July 07, 1999 at 02:41:31, Frank Schneider wrote: >The raw integerperformance (SpecINT95) is not that important for >the speed of a chessprogram. Many programs (like Rebel) are a lot >faster on AMD-chips, because of the faster cache. > >Frank The cache of the k6-3 is not faster than the one on the pentium 2/3.There's simply much more cache running at cpu speed.Amd=64kb+256kb=320kb versus a poor 32kb on the pentium chip.L3 cache is running at 100 mhz while L2 cache on the intel chip(512kb) is running at half the speed of the cpu.
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