Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[chipguy]

Amazing what you can do when the entire benchmark fits in on-die cache!

Nice theory but the only company that can come close to that is IBM with 128 MB
L3 in POWER4(+) systems.

http://www.specbench.org/cpu2000/analysis/memory/

SPEC CPU 2K was engineered to run on systems with a minium of 256 MB of
memory and blow past the 4 to 8 MB external caches common to high end RISC
systems of the late 1990s. Many component programs use 180-190 MB. Half the
programs use over 100 MB of memory when running. BTW, the next version of
SPEC CPU will likely increase memory usage by up to 4 or maybe even 8 fold.