NTS cache augments the direct-mapped main cache with a small fully-associative cache that holds those blocks predicted as holding non-temporal locality characteristics. The most outstanding difference of the NTS cache from the victim cache lies in the NTS cache doesn't have direct data path between the two caches

so its advantages are lower power and easier structure design. In this paper

an improvement of the NTS cache scheme

called Selective Conflict Prediction cache (SCP cache)

is proposed. In this scheme

incoming blocks into the cache are placed selectively in the direct-mapped cache or the fully-associative cache by the use of a conflict prediction algorithm which detects the locality of data blocks in the cache. Simulation results show that the performance of SCP cache is always better than that of NTS cache with similar area.