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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Cirruslvr who wrote (43964)12/24/1998 12:24:00 AM
From: Cirruslvr  Read Replies (1) of 1574616
 
L3 cache improves performance up to 9.5% in Winstone 98

Anand posted more benchmarks at his site. Although this review was of the Kyrotech K6-2 500, he has a few benchmarks of a K6-3 running a 350MHz with 0 L3 cache, 1MB L3 cache, and 2MB L3 cache.

Here are the numbers when running Winstone 98:
K6-3 350 (2MB L3) - 28.9
K6-3 350 (1MB L3) - 28.0
K6-3 350 (0MB L3) - 26.4

Difference btwn size of L3 cache:
2MB and 1MB - 3%
1MB and 0MB - 6%
2MB and 0MB - 9.5%

There won't be a desktop version of the 350 K6-3 so I don't know why he tested it at that speed. Tomorrow, he will post an article that deals specifically with the K6-3 and L3 cache. He will probably test it at more speeds at that time.

Here are the numbers when running Winstone 99:
K6-3 350 - (2MB L3) - 20.2
K6-3 350 - (1MB L3) - 19.2
K6-3 350 - (0MB L3) - 18.2

Difference btwn size of L3 cache:
2MB and 1MB - 5%
1MB and 0MB - 5.5%
2MB and 0MB - 11%

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