Quote Originally Posted by Morgoth Bauglir View Post
it's for small caches where you see big benefits from higher associativity.
AMD: L2 - 512 KBytes 16-way set associative
i7(i9): L2 - 256 KBytes 8-way set associative

sorry about the cache discussion, just wanted to inform about the strange "better prefetcher" that for some is some magic bullet