AMD Athlon Buyer's Guide - Part 2: Overclocking

As we've come to learn and expect, L2 cache speed has a weak effect on image editing applications. There is a difference between the 1/2 and 1/3 L2 cache dividers, but the L2 cache performance improvement is really more dependent on the size of the L2 cache than the speed. For this reason, an Athlon 600 with a 200MHz L2 cache (1/3) outperforms an Athlon 550 with a 275MHz L2 cache (1/2) and so on and so forth.

A similar situation is present in the CorelDRAW test; the results mirror those of the Photoshop test from above.