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To: fyodor_ who wrote (63809)	11/15/2001 9:17:53 PM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Re: I just don't think it's going to look very well… IMHO, AMD really should smack another 256kB cache on Athlon. You might be in for quite a surprise, since AMD can store more locations in 384K than Intel can in 512K due to AMD's shorter cache line and 20-way dual discrete cache architecture.

To: fyodor_ who wrote (63809)	11/15/2001 9:59:27 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

"With Northwood, there will be a whole (new) set of benchmarks where the Athlon loses out to the P4. " Yep. In addition, Northwood can get a boost because SiS's 645 chipset with PC2700 should give it a significant boost. The additional 256k of L2 cache and the lower latency of PC2700 very well may put Northwood at roughly equivalent GHz with the model-hertz of AMD. AMD would be in trouble if the L1 cache on Northwood was raised to 16k (equivalent instruction)/16k data, but that won't happen. Which is why I am saying roughly an equal number of wins for Northwood as Tbred on the benchmarks. Currently a M1700+ (or even a M1600+) is in that situation with a P4 2GHz, maybe the Northwood on a best of breed platform will be the equal of the Tbred. Don't get me wrong, that sort of rough parity will depress AMD's ASPs from where they are now. But going to a FSB of 166/333MHz will likely have a better effect than increasing the L2 cache to 512k...