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Re:AMD 6-core Phenom II $222 (5 times cheaper than Core-i7 9... by sp332 on Monday April 26, 2010 @10:37AM (#1294955)
Speaking generally, more cache is better. Most workloads will like an extra 6MB in the L3 more than an extra 1.5MB (total) in the L2.
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Re:AMD 6-core Phenom II $222 (5 times cheaper than Core-i7 9... by Hoff on Monday April 26, 2010 @10:51AM (#1294988)
Speaking generally, lower latency to main memory is better than more cache.

On a generation of one platform I dealt with, main memory latency and bandwidth (faster processor design, on-board memory controller, RDRAM) were on par with the L3 cache from the previous platform generation.

The cache shrank, and the performance increased.

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Re:AMD 6-core Phenom II $222 (5 times cheaper than Core-i7 9... by sp332 on Monday April 26, 2010 @11:16AM (#1295051)
All true, but that's not what hga asked :-)
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