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Originally posted by: Unknown AMD made a big splash about possibly using this technology to increase the size of their L2 caches by up to 5X without taking up more die space.
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If AMD can get this design into play soon, we can expect to see L2 caches of up to 4 MB per core using the same die space as the standard 1 MB S-RAM

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Originally posted by: zeppelinrox
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oh noez.. here comes the intel sized caches...

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More cache + Risc processing = Good

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Originally posted by: Royal Flush
More cache + Risc processing = Good

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also = slower performance.

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Where did you get that? It simply isn't true.

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so 512kb of cache is slower than 1mb?
I think conroe's 4mb of cache gave it an edge

No this is not a conroe discussion PLEASE dont compare it to the 64 there are too many of those.

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Originally posted by: Royal Flush
so 512kb of cache is slower than 1mb?
I think conroe's 4mb of cache gave it an edge

No this is not a conroe discussion PLEASE dont compare it to the 64 there are too many of those.

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surely its not worse, what i was referring it to is that it can hurt performance and speed up performance, it all depends on what things.

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More cache is always a good thing, but it can get to the point of diminishing returns, where it no longer gives enough boost to merit the added cost/voltage/etc. But it will not hurt performance.

-Adam

EDIT: I suppose it could, if it were at say, half speed. Like it was done years ago. It isn't done that way anymore though.

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Originally posted by: Silk_the_Absent1
More cache is always a good thing, but it can get to the point of diminishing returns, where it no longer gives enough boost to merit the added cost/voltage/etc. But it will not hurt performance.

-Adam

EDIT: I suppose it could, if it were at say, half speed. Like it was done years ago. It isn't done that way anymore though.

-Adam

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oh.. alright thanks for clarifying.

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Even then it wouldn't hurt performance. At that time, a cache running at half of the CPU clock speed was still a lot faster than main memory, and the purpose of using a cache at all is to have a place where the CPU can look for stuff that'll be faster than having to go all the way out to main memory and back again.

I still say that the best fit for x86 is to be called MISC.

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Yeah, I was just thinking about that in IRC. At worst, it won't have worse latencies then the system memory interface. So even then, it would still add performance.

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so 512kb of cache is slower than 1mb?
I think conroe's 4mb of cache gave it an edge

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IIRC, conroe's L2 cache is 4 megs but the whole thing is shared by both cores. So if there is only 1 active core, it has access to all 4 megs.
On amd's cpus, the L2 cache is separated so if there is 2 megs, with 1 meg per core, and if there is only 1 active core, it won't have access to 2 megs.
It would be good if amd could somehow have 1 core access all available L2 cache.

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cisc is hardware speed orented and structions inbedded on chip

risc is software preformnce orented and the software controls the memory and load store functions

so i rather have cisc for gaming and risc for scientific applications or java apps

misc sounds good a mix of the two has been happening for years now , slowly

z-ram will work like core duo cache does, works ok for intel

Z-Ram is capable of offer 5x densities over SRAM. That does not mean that AMD would increase their cache sizes by 5x.

It remains to be seen how AMD might utilize this technology in their cache.

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oh yeah.. the article does state

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Originally posted by: Unknown L2 caches of up to 4 MB per core using the same die space

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ok.. that would be sweet... up to 8 megs L2 cache total.

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cisc is hardware speed orented and structions inbedded on chip

risc is software preformnce orented and the software controls the memory and load store functions

so i rather have cisc for gaming and risc for scientific applications or java apps

misc sounds good a mix of the two has been happening for years now , slowly

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Yeah... the two schools have been mixed for a while now. RISC and CISC were never chip architectures, per say, but general guidelines on how to best build a chip given the resources at hand. The MISC thing is just a little hacker humor, since misc is an abbreviation for miscellaneous, and it just happens to have "ISC" as the last three letters...

And yeah... the zram deal is about density. There's SRAM cache cells of different densities also, but each SRAM cell is made of 4 to 6 transistors, which sort of puts a cap on how small you can make them.

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Yes, this may be a nice cache storage type but how much will this cost? Because who knows maybe its 2x or 4x more expensive than what we have today...

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I don't think that's going to happen... Reducing cost is what stuff like this is all about...

If the cache takes up less space, then it should help to create a cheaper CPU overall.

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