The new Bartons come with 512mb of L2 cache, compared to the Thoroughbred's
256mb of L2 cache.  AMD is justifying the higher speed rating compared to
actual processor clock speed based on the anticipated advantage of having a
larger cache.  Whether it is actually an advantage (or how much of an
advantage) will depend on the application being used.

See here for more information.
http://www.anandtech.com/cpu/showdoc.html?i=1783&p=2

John

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ian" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 4:27 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] CPU oddity


> Just tried out a new CPU in my rig - it's an AMD 2500+ with the new
'Barton'
> core - 0.13 micron.
>
> The previous CPU was an AMD 2400+ regular.

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