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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: Scumbria who wrote (99218)3/21/2000 1:36:00 AM
From: kapkan4u  Read Replies (2) of 1576759
 
<By speed, I assume that you are talking about architectural performance. The L2 cache on Thunderbird actually may have the effect of slowing the clock speed down. It is entirely possible that the MHz advantage that Athlon currently has over PIII may be due to the full speed L2 on Coppermine.

Anyway, I'm guessing that the Thunderbird cache will be a small victim cache, and will increase architectural performance by about 5-15%. It remains to be seen if the onboard L2 cache was a good idea. In fact, we may never know....>

Wow, Scumbria how could you get so many things wrong in the span of two paragraphs?

Kap
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