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To: Joe NYC who wrote (83144)6/20/2002 10:40:47 PM
From: ptannerRead Replies (1) | Respond to of 275872
 
Joe, re: "I expect Barton will have about the same performance gain as NW got from 512K L2."

I think the gains will be lower primarily due to the Athlon's much larger L1 plus the possibility of an additional clock cycle on the L2.

Should we make a friendly wager? We should select a benchmark (or small set), a testing site for data on Willie/NW and TBred/Barton (Anandtech?) and any other items.

Anand's NW review: anandtech.com

-PT



To: Joe NYC who wrote (83144)6/20/2002 11:51:17 PM
From: ElmerRead Replies (1) | Respond to of 275872
 
There is a trade-off, but Athlon has a big L1, so the speed of L2 is not as performance critical as on Intel processors. Extra clock compared to 100 or 200 clocks on RAM access seems like a good trade-off to me, but that's just a WAG.

I'm just waging it too but that extra clock applies to every single L2 access. It might not pay?

EP


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