Quote Originally Posted by ajaidev View Post
Because the L2 tech used by Intel is so so much better and compact as a result than the L2 tech used by AMD the result is the AMD processors fatten up due to L2's and L3's taking up a huge amount of space...
actually if you take look at the big picture up, you'll notice that L2 density is almost same... Intel's L3 is denser 'cos it uses different cache tiles. AMD uses same cache tiles for L3 as for L2.