Re:AMD 6-core Phenom II $222 (5 times cheaper than Core-i7 9...
by Hoff on Monday April 26, 2010 @10:51AM
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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.
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.