Quote Originally Posted by Kristers Bensin View Post
Bulldozer will have a major upside in single-threaded workload, the shared L2-cache. 1MB per core and hopefully 2MB in lowthread workloads wich is 4 threads and lower for the FX8.
Core i7 2600K has 256KB L2 per core and 8MB shared L3 vs Zambezi's 8MB (module) shared L2 and 8MB (module/all cores) shared L3.
core 2 quads had up to 12MB of L2 Cache.... are they faster then a SB CPU single threaded? not even close.... more cache is always nice but won't make or break a CPU in any performance. also the 1100T has 512kb of L2 cache that double the i7's... and is it faster single threaded..... nope.

also we have no idea as to the cache speeds of bulldozer as well. the caches on Core i7 especially SB are SMOKING fast compared to anything else.

cache size can tell us next to nothing about any type of performance without seeing any other numbers. if we knew what bulldozer was capable of with a certain amount of cache we could make some guesses as to the increase in performance adding more cache would have but until then....

I do really like the whole "module" thinking as opposed to cores though as it seems that the sharing of resources more efficient. but how much more efficient?