The Level 1 cache, or primary cache, is on the CPU and is used for temporary storage of instructions and data organised in blocks of 32 bytes. Primary cache is the fastest form of storage. Because it's built in to the chip with a zero wait-state (delay) interface to the processor's … [Read more...]
In the rendering stage, performed by the hardware accelerator, the 3D engine draws the pixels. The bottleneck here is memory … [Read More...]
The Dual Independent Bus (DIB) architecture - first implemented in the Pentium Pro processor - was created to aid processor bus bandwidth. Having … [Read More...]