IBM published Barcelona SpecCPU results.

[Jimmer411]

Wow, that's pretty small improvement from the K8 (2.7-5.6%). They can probably get those results from the K8 if they increased the L2 cache to 2-4mb per core.

Cache has a totally different effect on Intels cpus than it does on AMD ones. There is virtually no noticable difference in performance between 256, 512 and 1mb per core cache on A64s. where the difference between 2mb and 4mb is quite noticeable on C2D.


Im interested in seeing how the power functions of the new processors does. Im selling my laptop off since alot of the features look very nice for notebooks.

[NickS]

Cache has a totally different effect on Intels cpus than it does on AMD ones. There is virtually no noticable difference in performance between 256, 512 and 1mb per core cache on A64s. where the difference between 2mb and 4mb is quite noticeable on C2D.


Im interested in seeing how the power functions of the new processors does. Im selling my laptop off since alot of the features look very nice for notebooks.

People say this but theres quite the difference in games with 512K and 1024K L2 cache & K8's