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Name: Ahmed
Status: Student
Age: 20s
Location: N/A
Country: N/A
Date: Around 1999
Question:
What is the deffrent between L1 Cashe memory and L2 CasheMemory ?


Replies:
Ahmed, good question.

The difference between L1 and L2 cache is, L1 which is usually small 16/32K resides on the processor. Where L2 most of the time larger in the area of 256 and 512K resides on the motherboard close to the processor.

I hope this answers your question.
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