Re: [expert] AMD K7 Athelon vs. Intel PIII and Linux?

[Jean-Louis Debert]

"Ron Johnson, Jr." wrote:
> The K6-3 is a kissing cousin of the K6-2.  The only diff is that
> on the K6-3, the L1 cache runs at processor speed, whereas on
> K6-2, the L1 is slower.

The L1 cache _always_ runs at processor speed on any processor
that I know of ... To do otherwise would defeat its purpose IMHO.
But the K6-3 also has 256K of _L2_ cache (yep, level 2, the cache
on the MB, if any, is level 3) running at full processor speed.

This is a bit like the Celeron, which only has 128K of L2 cache
on-chip.


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