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Question about quad L2 catch..........

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Is there an advantage to having a quad with 12 MB of shared L2 catch that may have 2 cores idle most of the time as opposed to a dual core with 6MB of shared L2 catch ? Question being 12MB catch alone a performance asset over the fact of having 4 cores ?
 
The Quads 12mb cache is more like 6 x 2. The current quads are two dual cores slapped together, meaning there's 12mb all total, but only 6 availbe for use as each half of the chip needs to keep identical cache.

This is why AMD claims their Phenom is "true" quad core and intel's aren't.
 
MrMitch said:
The Quads 12mb cache is more like 6 x 2. The current quads are two dual cores slapped together, meaning there's 12mb all total, but only 6 availbe for use as each half of the chip needs to keep identical cache.

This is why AMD claims their Phenom is "true" quad core and intel's aren't.
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yea AMD has to claim some sort of difference. I bet they are selling 1/4 the chips intel is.

funny. i wasnt aware the q6600 was not a "true quad core". it has 4 cores packed in there, dont it :)
 
Heh. Neither is "true" quad core. Just different implementations of the same concept. Obviously Intel's approach doesn't cost them much peformance, if any.
 
1/4? AMD is lucky if they are selling 1/10th of the quads that Intel is right now...
 
So the Q6700 is the same not a true quad core as well then? That is a odd thing, like buying a pet octupus and getting on 4 legs.........

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