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  1. 09-03-2009, 07:15 AM #11
    ajaidev
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    Quote Originally Posted by Morgoth Bauglir View Post
    L3 isn't exclusive for Barcelona/Shanghai(nor is it inclusive). That would be pretty retarded considering its intended usage. Associativity for large caches is less important, it's for small caches where you see big benefits from higher associativity.
    Na he is rite its inclusive. Both those arcs are inclusive, nehalem and shrunk is exclusive cache.

    Quote Originally Posted by gosh View Post
    AMD: L2 - 512 KBytes 16-way set associative
    i7(i9): L2 - 256 KBytes 8-way set associative

    sorry about the cache discussion, just wanted to inform about the strange "better prefetcher" that for some is some magic bullet
    But the sad part is higher associative has some side effects. The added size of the AMD L2 slow the process down a bit, but as associative is about half so that way AMD's L2 would win.
    Last edited by ajaidev; 09-03-2009 at 07:19 AM.
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