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To: Scumbria who wrote (114090)6/4/2000 10:05:00 PM
From: wily  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1576881
 
Scumbria,

The topic of full-speed L2 keeps coming up over and over again. The principle value of an onboard-L2 cache is that it provides lower latency than an off-chip cache. The clock speed of the cache is of secondary importance.

What makes off-die L2 faster than DRAM -- is it that SRAM is faster than DRAM or is it because it is static?

wily



To: Scumbria who wrote (114090)6/7/2000 7:41:00 PM
From: wily  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1576881
 
Scumbria,

The topic of full-speed L2 keeps coming up over and over again. The principle value of an onboard-L2 cache is that it provides lower latency than an off-chip cache. The clock speed of the cache is of secondary importance.

Why is the latency lower for on-chip cache vs off-chip cache at equal clock speeds?

wily


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