Re: Game Dev System

[J C Lawrence <claw@kanga.nu>]

On Mon, 6 Mar 2000 13:24:30 -0500 
Robert Roy <macgregor@campbellcounty.com> wrote:

> AMD has more cache on their processors than Intel has on the
> Pentium III's.  

True for the 512K PIII's, but not true for the PIII Xeon's with 2Meg
L1 caches.

> The problem is that the cache doesn't run at the full speed of the
> CPU, which will be fixed in a month or so with the introduction of
> on-die cache.

At which point (as of last I checked) they will still be behind
Intel for large cache CPU's, and thus locked out of several compute
intensive markets where cache size counts far more than clock
speeds.

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