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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Paul Engel who wrote (42144)11/24/1998 1:58:00 AM
From: Scumbria  Read Replies (2) of 1571911
 
Paul,

Available benchmarks - try Tom Uberclockermeister - show that the Mendocino - a 128 K full CPU speed L2 Cache Celeron - performs almost as good as a Pentium II with 512K half-CPU speed L2 cache, when the Mendocino and Pentium II are clocked at the same speeds.

Conclusion - SMALL FULL SPEED caches can provide enough performance as a half speed cache FOUR TIMES the size !

The Mendocino cache is located on chip, and has about 1/2 the latency of the PII cache- which is located on a separate die. Do you remember when I was querying you for details about Mendocino cache latency, early in the year? Now you can see why I was so interested.

To paraphrase James Carwell: "It's the latency ......"

Had you attended Haavaad instead of MIT, you would have said "almost as well" instead of "almost as good".

Scumbria

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