Author: David Blackman
Date: 23:22:23 01/24/00
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On January 24, 2000 at 18:43:48, Thorsten Czub wrote: >>The L2 cache on the AMD K6-3 was also claimed to be "full speed L2 cache". It's >>speed was unpredicable but usually slower than Celeron, and occasionally slower >>than Pentium II. > >sorry but i cannot agree here. > >depends massively on the program you do test with: >cstal e.g. on a k6-3/450 is 2x faster than on a k6-2/450. >and i don't think it runs slower on a k6-2 than on a pentium2/3 >or a celeron. > >it all depends on the program(s) you want to use >mainly. i don't think there is golden way to find out WHICH to buy exactly. Sorry about the misunderstanding. I meant that the L2 cache on the K6-3 is slow. Some other parts of the chip are quite fast. It is true that the K6-3 beats a similar clock pentium 2 on some programs, and is slower on others. Compared to Pentium 2 and 3, the K6-3 has a bigger, faster L1 cache, faster MMX, slower floating point in most cases, and a pipeline seems a bit slower for most purposes, but is occasionally faster.
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