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To: Scumbria who wrote (101231)	3/31/2000 5:28:00 AM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572877

Spitfire should be faster on some benchmarks (depending on the working set size of the code) because of the onboard L2. Not if L2 is only 64K as was mentioned on some online hardware sites. If the L2 is only 64k, in my opinion, AMD should not bother putting it in. It would be interesting if L1 could be increased from 64/64 to 64/128K. It would be a lot better use of the additional 64KB worth of transistors. But this would mean messing with L1, which is risky. On the plus side, both Thunderbird and Spitfire could use the same core. And AMD could sell Thunderbirds with defects in L2 as Spitfires. Joe