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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (40506)10/31/1998 6:20:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis  Read Replies (1) of 1573683
 
Ten,
RE:"Face it, Jim, adding 256K of on-die L2 cache is not going to improve the
K6-3 as much as an on-die L2 cache improved the Mendocino Celeron,
since the K6 and K6-2 already had an L2 cache on the motherboard.
Sure, that L2 cache becomes an L3 cache, but the L3 cache isn't likely to
make much of a difference due to diminished returns. Plus, there is no
reason for me to believe that the "core changes" within the K6-3 are
going to improve its per-clock performance. More likely, those core
changes were necessary to get to the higher frequencies in the first place."
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I see my friend Maxwell has already posted information for your enjoyment. I'll yield to him since he's very sharp about these things.

As far as my record, which and what benchmark you use will have some bearing but I'll venture a guess that the K6-3 will outrun the current Pentium II easily....Intel will catch up if it incorporates 256k cache on the Celeron.
Jim
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