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To: Scumbria who wrote (91729)2/5/2000 5:29:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1576124
 
RE:"Athlon has a core which runs at one speed, and an L2 cache which runs at a slower speed. PIII uses the same clock speed for the core and L2 cache.

Does that mean that AMD is being dishonest in rating Athlon MHz"...

No, I wasn't refering to core vs L2 cache. Can the fpu run at one speed and the integer run at another for instance? Or is the core speed the core speed?

Speaking of L2 speeds...why can't someone run the l2 in excess of the core clock speed?

Jim

Jim



To: Scumbria who wrote (91729)2/6/2000 3:32:00 AM
From: Petz  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1576124
 
Scumbria, re: <Athlon has a core which runs at one speed, and an L2 cache which runs at a slower speed. PIII uses the same clock speed for the core and L2 cache.

Does that mean that AMD is being dishonest in rating Athlon MHz?>

Actually, the Coppermine uses an L2 cache whose clock speed is 1/2 the CPU speed (but 256 bits wide instead of 64).

No, neither is dishonest.

Petz


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