Intel P4 Extreme Edition @ LostCircuits

"With respect to the Extreme Edition of the P4, Cachemem is certainly the most interesting synthetic benchmark in that it should clearly show where memory traffic can be absorbed by the L3 cache rather than having to be routed all the way to the system memory. The cut-off block size is naturally expected to be 2 MB since that is all that would fit into the L3 cache. In other words, the main differences between the P4 3.2 and the P4 EE are expected with block sizes larger than 512kB and up to 2048 kBytes."
Basically this paragraph sums up the coolness with the P4EE, the problem lies with the rather high cost of the processor and that it is only available in a single speed.

Related Web URL: http://www.lostcircuits.com/cpu/intel_p4ee/