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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (100451)3/28/2000 1:09:00 PM
From: Scumbria  Read Replies (2) of 1575300
 
Jim,

Could 64k of Athlons L1 cache simply be switched over to an L2?

No.

What would the performance of a 64k-64k cache be?

Without an L3, I'd estimate 10-20% less than a current Athlon, because of the half sized L1 and the much smaller L2.

Scumbria
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