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Ok, a lot of you are here from the 8.4 memory bandwidth thread and this applies to you in particurlar.
DDR SDRAM and RDRAM, no matter how you put it ar DRAM types, Dynamic Ram that is.
A little history on DRAM: Early in the days of personal computing, in the long long ago, when memory was first developed there was SRAM. Static Ram- this later became known as cache and can be found on almost all processors (I am excluding the registers of course, the Cyrix MIII i believe has no onboard cache [not the Via C3 -64kb]). But back then it was the only Ram solution. So back in the day, people got a thinkin: this stuff is good but way too expensive to make. And so they created DRAM, a cheap, low efficiency, high power drain, version of SRAM. From then on computers have used DRAM in various forms.
FYI SDRAM is a combination of DRAM and SRAM, with better performance than DRAM, but lower cost than SRAM.
Now, given the fact that SRAM and all other microcircuitry is becoming dirt cheap, don't you think it would be logical to go back to the old SRAM standard?
Where the K6III comes in:
Remember the K63, that was a while ago- i know. But how do you think that something that was in essence a k62 was able to compete with a P3 at the same clock speed? Simple- the K63 used an L3 SRAM external cache buffer (think pentium 1 [i got a 512 cache block in my machine]). In fact think all pentiums!!!
Pentium 1 - external cache blocks.
Pentium pro -same deal
Pentium II - Slot chip, the packages had external cache chips on them next to the processor)
Pentium III- same deal.
RDRAM, DDR nothing. If you want performance SRAM is where it's at.
Case in point : TUALATIN PIII!
<font color=blue>I for one run Quake 3 on a P133(No MMX)</font color=blue>I have no affiliatioin w/ Intel
- Btw, the Slot Athlons also had SRAM external cache.<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by AlphaSan on 09/20/01 09:56 PM.</EM></FONT></P>
DDR SDRAM and RDRAM, no matter how you put it ar DRAM types, Dynamic Ram that is.
A little history on DRAM: Early in the days of personal computing, in the long long ago, when memory was first developed there was SRAM. Static Ram- this later became known as cache and can be found on almost all processors (I am excluding the registers of course, the Cyrix MIII i believe has no onboard cache [not the Via C3 -64kb]). But back then it was the only Ram solution. So back in the day, people got a thinkin: this stuff is good but way too expensive to make. And so they created DRAM, a cheap, low efficiency, high power drain, version of SRAM. From then on computers have used DRAM in various forms.
FYI SDRAM is a combination of DRAM and SRAM, with better performance than DRAM, but lower cost than SRAM.
Now, given the fact that SRAM and all other microcircuitry is becoming dirt cheap, don't you think it would be logical to go back to the old SRAM standard?
Where the K6III comes in:
Remember the K63, that was a while ago- i know. But how do you think that something that was in essence a k62 was able to compete with a P3 at the same clock speed? Simple- the K63 used an L3 SRAM external cache buffer (think pentium 1 [i got a 512 cache block in my machine]). In fact think all pentiums!!!
Pentium 1 - external cache blocks.
Pentium pro -same deal
Pentium II - Slot chip, the packages had external cache chips on them next to the processor)
Pentium III- same deal.
RDRAM, DDR nothing. If you want performance SRAM is where it's at.
Case in point : TUALATIN PIII!
<font color=blue>I for one run Quake 3 on a P133(No MMX)</font color=blue>I have no affiliatioin w/ Intel
- Btw, the Slot Athlons also had SRAM external cache.<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by AlphaSan on 09/20/01 09:56 PM.</EM></FONT></P>