0 0 votes CAM (Content addressable memory or Associative memory) is faster than Cache Memory?? If someone knows it. .please explain. CO & Architecture + – atul_21 714 views answer comment Share Follow Print See all 4 Comments 4 4 Comments reply Anu007 commented Nov 24, 2017 reply Follow flag Try this link 0 0 replyShare atul_21 commented Nov 25, 2017 reply Follow flag Still unable to get my answer. . @Anu007 Please help me . . 0 0 replyShare junk_mayavi commented Nov 25, 2017 reply Follow flag Both are present inside the processor. both differ in their applications also. Speed will depend on the actual implementation, isn't it? usually, CAM type of memories is used inside high-speed application-specific processors such as network processors and all ( I have experience working with CAM). The usual rate at which a network processor can process packets go up to 6Gbps or more.To process all packets one by one at this rate requires very high-speed access and are made possible by CAM memories. What I tried to point is, both cache and CAM are very fast and are used in completely different scenarios. so I think this will depend on their actual implementation that which is faster and which is not. (Usually, network processors cost so much more than our utility Intel processors and all. In that sense, CAM should be faster I think :) .) 0 0 replyShare atul_21 commented Nov 25, 2017 reply Follow flag Thank u for sharing this. 0 0 replyShare Please log in or register to add a comment.
