Quote Originally Posted by freeloader View Post
So basically you're telling me that a 2ghz Barcelona would have the same L3 cache latency (any cache latency for that fact) as a 3ghz Barcelona? Thanks for helping out with this stuff, it's interesting.
No, I'm saying it won't affect the scaling. Why is there a latency decrease when you increase frequency.

As you increase frequency, time decreases (latency). That's why there's a latency decrease and that's why I believe it will scale the same.