Quote Originally Posted by Mats View Post
What's the alternative?
Don't you think it's logical add more cache when cores are added?
With your reasoning, we can stay at 8 MB in total forever.

I was referring to your rolling eyes, when the discussions so far have been about size only.
Like I said, L3 cache are shared. Unless it's some heavily threaded software, other cores can use it.

I'm not saying we're going to stay with 8 MB forever. Look at AMD anyway, Thuban has 6MB L3, Deneb has 6 MB L3 as well. Just following the ratio indefinitely is going to be a waste after a time.