The new G4's and L3 cache - more of the same?

bodhibodhi
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in Current Mac Hardware edited January 2014
Apple is making a very big deal of the L3 cache on the new G4's. From what I understand the L3 cache was always DDR wasn't it? Is this DDR just clocked higher? The cache in the last round ran at 1/4 processor speed. Apple says on the new G4's the cache runs at up to 500MHz so it's either running at 1/2 processor speed which in the fastest chip would be 500MHz or is running at 250MHz but since it is DDR they are marketing it as 500MHz. Any ideas or input?

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  • Reply 1 of 2
    sebseb Posts: 676member
    Well, there is an article <a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0201/29.motorola.php"; target="_blank">here</a> that you might be able to glean a little more info from.
  • Reply 2 of 2
    razzfazzrazzfazz Posts: 728member
    [quote]Originally posted by Bodhi:

    <strong>Apple says on the new G4's the cache runs at up to 500MHz so it's either running at 1/2 processor speed which in the fastest chip would be 500MHz or is running at 250MHz but since it is DDR they are marketing it as 500MHz.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    According to Apple's hardware techpubs, the latter is true..



    Bye,

    RazzFazz
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