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

[Ron Johnson, Jr.]

Jean-Louis Debert wrote:
> 
> "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.

Thanks for the correction.

Ron
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