Hardwarelab.de heeft een aantal Quake2, Quake3, 3DMark 2000, Povray en Cinema 3D benchmarks gepost die de performance verschillen tussen een Athlon met 1/2 en 1/3 L2 cache divider laten zien. In de game benchmarks blijken de 700 (1/2) en 750 (1/3) vrijwel gelijk te presteren, terwijl de L2 cache snelheid een minder grote invloed blijkt te hebben in de rendering benchmarks:
For the used games and graphic card the L2 cache speed is not so important. I'm sure this will change when using faster graphic cards (GeForce DDR is comming!). In 3DMark2000 the Athlon 700 1/2 acts like a Athlon 750 1/3, and in some benchmarks it is faster. In renderbenchmarks the L2 cache speed is important. But also higher clockrates mean shorter rendertimes - the 750 1/3 is faster than the 700 1/2.In short: For the gameplayer, with 'normal' graphic cards there is no need for more than 700MHz when playing todays games. For rendering, go and get the fastest CPU on the market, time is money. If you are using you computer mostly for 'normal' things like surfing the internet or Office stuff, you dont need more than 500MHz, because thats real overkill.
