AMD Athlon Buyer's Guide - Part 2: Overclocking

3D Rendering Applications are also more dependent upon L2 cache size rather than speed, so changing the divider to 1/3 from 1/2 doesn't have such an adverse effect. Performance in Bryce 2 drops a couple of percent on the Athlon 700 as the L2 cache speed drops from 350MHz to 233MHz, but even with a 233MHz L2 cache, the Athlon 700 is slightly faster than the Athlon 650 with a 325MHz L2 cache. This is the case in the majority of 3D rendering application tests.