fatslob-:O said:
Yep, agreed cache does matter but computing performance is determined by many factors such as the execution units, the branch predictors, and other things such as decode units. Cache will essentially maintain a more theoretical performance rather than increase but that's not a bad thing. |
If you had 3 Broadways clocked at 1.24GHz with their normal amount of cache each (256kb a piece, so 768kb total) and ran it against Espresso, (which has 3MB cache) the increase in cache would hand a definite advantage to Espresso.