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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: Bill Jackson who wrote (87649)1/17/2000 7:06:00 PM
From: Petz  Read Replies (2) of 1572108
 
Bill, concerning the effectiveness of a full speed L2 for the Athlon.

There are benchmarks on the web in which the Athlon 750 with a 2/5 speed cache is compared to an overclocked Athlon 750 (really a 500 or 550) with a 1/2 speed cache, and maybe also a 1/3 speed cache. As I remember, the difference depended a lot on the benchmarks, but was sometimes a few percent.

It would be worthwhile for someone to estimate the performance of an Athlon with 100% L2 cache speed from these two data points, emphasizing the benchmarks in which the Athlon 750 is behind the Cumine 733.

Of course a true on-die cache would not only be full speed, but have lower latency. If anything the Mustang would be better than this extrapolation.

Petz
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