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How The Memory Cache Works
Author: Gabriel Torres
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Memory Cache Configuration on Current CPUs

Below we present you a reference table containing the main memory cache specs for the main CPUs available on the market today.

CPUL1 InstructionL1 DataL2
Athlon 6464 KB
2-way set associative
64-byte lines
128-bit datapath with L2
128-bit datapath with fetch unit
64 KB
2-way set associative
64-byte lines
128-bit datapath with L2
512 KB or 1 MB
16-way set associative
64-byte lines
128-bit datapath with L1 data
128-bit datapath with L1 instruction
Athlon 64 FX64 KB per core
2-way set associative
64-byte lines
128-bit datapath with L2
128-bit datapath with fetch unit
64 KB per core 2-way set associative
64-byte lines
128-bit datapath with L2
1 MB per core
16-way set associative
64-byte lines
128-bit datapath with L1 data
128-bit datapath with L1 instruction
Athlon 64 X264 KB per core
2-way set associative
64-byte lines
128-bit datapath with L2
128-bit datapath with fetch unit
64 KB per core
2-way set associative
64-byte lines
128-bit datapath with L2
512 KB or 1 MB per core
16-way set associative
64-byte lines
128-bit datapath with L1 data
128-bit datapath with L1 instruction
Sempron (sockets 754 and AM2)64 KB
2-way set associative
64-byte lines
128-bit datapath with L2
128-bit datapath with fetch unit
64 KB
2-way set associative
64-byte lines
128-bit datapath with L2
128 KB or 256 KB
16-way set associative
64-byte lines
128-bit datapath with L1 data
128-bit datapath with L1 instruction
Opteron64 KB per core
2-way set associative
128-bit datapath with L2
128-bit datapath with fetch unit
64 KB per core
2-way set associative
64-byte lines
128-bit datapath with L2
1 MB per core
16-way set associative
64-byte lines
128-bit datapath with L1 data
128-bit datapath with L1 instruction
Pentium 4N/A *8 KB
4-way set associative
64-byte lines
256-bit datapath with L2
256 KB, 512 MB or 1 MB
8-way set associative
128-byte lines
64-bit datapath with fetch unit
256-bit datapath with L1 data
Pentium DN/A *16 KB
4-way set associative
64-byte lines
256-bit datapath with L2
1 MB or 2 MB per core
8-way set associative
128-byte lines
64-bit datapath with fetch unit
256-bit datapath with L1 data
Core 2 Duo32 KB
64-byte lines
256-bit datapath with fetch unit
32 KB
64-byte lines
256-bit datapath with L2
2 MB or 4 MB
8-way set associative
64-byte lines
256-bit datapath with L1 data
Pentium Dual Core32 KB
64-byte lines
256-bit datapath with fetch unit
32 KB
64-byte lines
256-bit datapath with L2
1 MB
8-way set associative
64-byte lines
256-bit datapath with L1 data

* There is a 150 KB trace cache on these processors. This cache is located between the decoder unit and the execution unit. Thus the fetch unit grabs data directly from L2 memory cache.

We didn’t include Xeon and Celeron processors on the above table because there are several different Xeon and Celeron models around based on different architectures. Celeron and Xeon based on Netburst microarchitecture (i.e., based on Pentium 4) will have the same specs as Pentium 4 but with different L2 cache size, while Celeron and Xeon based on Core microarchitecture (i.e., based on Core 2 Duo) will have the same specs as Core 2 Duo but with different L2 cache size.

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