Athlon II Or Phenom II: Does Your CPU Need L3 Cache?
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Patrick Schmid and Achim Roos
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Benchmark Results: Productivity
PDF creation with Adobe’s Acrobat 9 from Microsoft Powerpoint doesn’t benefit much from the L3 cache.
WinRAR is very memory-sensitive and hence needs 16% less time for our workload.
WinZip doesn’t seem to care much about the missing L3 cache. The workload completes 9.2% faster.
Article continues belowThe application of Photoshop CS4 filters doesn’t benefit from the Phenom II’s L3 cache. Three seconds difference in our workload is almost nothing.
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