Way back in the day particularly the Athelon / Applebread days and chips had the first on-die memory controller for consumer processors. While they had fairly s

Way back in the day particularly the Athelon / Applebread days and chips had the first on-die memory controller for consumer processors. While they had fairly significantly lower IPC than some Pentiums (remember the Pentium D egg cooker?), they had much better memory latency. Hard to prove anything - but some people claim they were quicker