Quote Originally Posted by informal View Post
I think the shared L2 per core pair with a size of 2MB is going to be a big deal for many desktop apps.Redpriest over at SA forums once said that AMD suffered a lot because many apps were optimized for just that cache size as a sweet spot (on intel HW since past Core2 they had very fast and large shared L2 cache). AMD finally tackled this issue with fairly large and fast L2. Compared to Thuban,in single or poorly threaded desktop workloads there is now 4x more L2 cache running at full clock with 2x greater load/store BW than Thuban core. Further,the L3 is now 33% larger and partitioned with 2.4Ghz+ frequency(20+ percent improvement Vs Thuban).
Just looking at cache subsystem BD is on whole other level than Thuban.
Then how about post-Nehalem CPUs?
The logic is flawed.