> It is slightly lower clocked, but the Phenom has 6 meg of L3 cache that the Athlon II > doesn't. I thought MAME favored large CPU cache? Looking at the benchmarks over at > Anandtech on paper, it looks like its a better performer, but I understand > traditional benches don't always apply to emulation.
Overall memory bandwidth is what MAME really wants; a large cache can obviously help with that, but it's not the be-all end-all by itself. (And of course, there's not a great deal of good benchmark data in this area).
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