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minfazhai 14 minutes ago [-]
The inversion is the part I didn't expect: the dense Zen 6c is now the top IPC core (full 4MB L3 per core), and the old classic design is the high-frequency one. They also tried not to leave a software-visible gap, so the same optimizations still apply to both.
koutakun 12 hours ago [-]
Interesting article. Very rare to see CPU designers go so in depth.
phkahler 9 hours ago [-]
>> Very rare to see CPU designers go so in depth.
Very rare to see an inteviewer who has tested to that level and can say "gee you increased L2 hit rate by XX how'd you do that?"
Very rare to see an inteviewer who has tested to that level and can say "gee you increased L2 hit rate by XX how'd you do that?"