AMD strictly moderated (AMD)

[chipdesigner]

Again, you're pathetic. Again, another post worthy of pete. Congratulations.

Now, go read this, and it'll be obvious, even to you, that the IMC is providing the lion's share of the benefit:

http://www.cpuid.com/reviews/K8/index.php

In particular:


This test also allows to compare the memory latency, once the test exceeds the L2. The Opteron memory subsystem shows a 120 cycles latency, whereas the Athlon XP shows 360 cycles, namely three times slower, as the clock speed are the same. We can see here the effect of the integrated memory controller, that allows to minimize the request time to memory, and then drastically reduces the read latency.