Quote Originally Posted by vario View Post
You have to remember, they dont have 32MB L3, they have 2x16MB L3, and thats not the same, CCX`s are still 4 core ones, whenever a thread migrates from a core on CCX 1 to a core on CCX 2 l3 has to be filled again.
But yes, they are 2x bigger.But you have to understand that they are not having better latency, and thats why intels are fast(well that and clocks)
Gotta remember games are 4 threads at most usually; I'll take a 30% improvement in cache in those cases (as compared to 12 Mb on 9700k). Yes, latency is slower than Intel. But in general the cost of cache misses is much higher than the read time. As long as the cache management is good I'll bet a notable portion of the IPC improvement came from double the size.