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To: Joe NYC who wrote (28214)7/13/1998 8:13:00 PM
From: Scumbria  Respond to of 33344
 
Latency vs. Bandwidth

Joe,

That is why Intel, AMD and IDT are scrambling to put large L1/L2 caches on their CPU dies. An onboard L2 is far more valuable (for CPU performance) than an onboard memory controller. Hopefully Cyrix will do the same.

Memory bandwidth is critical for 3-D graphics performance, but of little value to the CPU.

Scumbria