How much does cache influence performance?

March 29th, 2005, 07:37 PM

How much performance difference is there between a AMD Athlon 64bit 3200+ with L2 cache 512kb and the the same 3200+ with 1mb L2cache?

**Regeneration** · March 29th, 2005, 10:05 PM

Small for gaming and Medium for heavy applications

March 29th, 2005, 10:06 PM

Thanks, seems i've got the right one

March 30th, 2005, 10:38 AM

AMD processor generally are less cache dependent than Intel's.

Thinking about the memory controller being incorporated directly into the CPU Ahtlon64s should be even less dependent, but I could miss some facts here.

March 31st, 2005, 01:51 AM

I think the difference between the two is the clock speeds and the cache and that the 1mb cache has slower clock speeds so if you have the 1mb cache, you can always OC the chip to the same clock spped as the other 3200

March 31st, 2005, 01:12 PM

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