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Athlon cache subsystem questions

Soulkeeper

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what kinda set-associativity do the L1 and L2 caches of the athlon have ??
I think i remember reading somewhere that the L2 is 8 way set associative if this is true is it also true for the L1 cache ??
are blocks still addressed in 64 byte chunks ?? as with the slot a athlons
 

AndyHui

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Both the ThunderBird and Palomino (along with their Duron derivatives) feature 2-way associativity for both the L1 D and I caches.

The L2 cache has 16-way set associativity. The cache line size is 64 bytes.