Also worth noting is that there are Xeons out there with 1MB cache (i think 2MB as well, but i'm not 100% sure).
On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Federico Voges wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > Well, Intel is doing something similar too. The new Celerons (1.7Ghz > and up, all socket 478) are P4 with 128kb L2 cache (as Lonni said). But > the max freq available now is 2.2GHz when you have a 3.06GHz P4s. > They'll keep the Celerons waaaay behind the P4. > > BTW, There are P4 (as well as PIIIs) with 512kb L2 cache. > > On 08 Jan 2003 13:20:32 -0800, Aaron Grewell wrote: > > >The original Celeron had no L2 cache at all. Its performance was so > >abysmal that Intel had to quickly come out with the Celeron "A" which > >includes the 128KB L2 cache we know today. K-6-II and III chips > >definitely gave better bang for the buck than the original Celerons, but > >the Celeron A was the last nail in K6's coffin and led to the > >introduction of the Duron, AMD's low-cache processor. The Duron not > >only whupped up on any Celeron ever made, it ate into Athlon sales as > >well, which is why it is going the way of the dodo. For this next round > >it looks like AMD will use 32-bit chips against Celeron and 64-bit > >against P4, being more careful to keep the clock speeds differentiated > >this time. We'll see how well that works. > > > > > >On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 12:22, Stuart Biggerstaff wrote: > >> And at that isn't it something like double the cache of the original Celeron? > >> > >> Of course it's worth noting that whether they suck or not just about all > >> current processors are i686 (Pentium Pro). I think the AMD K6 series was > >> the last i586 put in many PCs, and though they would often outperform the > >> early Celerons, they wouldn't run software compiled for i686 while the > >> Celerons would. > >> > >> At 03:01 PM 1/8/03 -0500, Net Llama! wrote: > >> >Its also worth nothing that Celerons have a 128KB cache, while the > >> >'normal' PIII & PIV chips have a 256KB cache. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
