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Is CPU development moving back to a CACHE war fight? Certainly AMD done well with the CPU cache changes and looking at their GPU, they leveridged that appraoch
by Zenst 6y ago
Is CPU development moving back to a CACHE war fight?
Certainly AMD done well with the CPU cache changes and looking at their GPU, they leveridged that appraoch again very well it seems.
If Intel was to release the same chips and lob on a large SRAM buffer - things may flip again.
However it pans out - this real and credible competition is good for innovation and many area's of x86 have stagnated for so long that the whole Ryzen momentum has done wonders and totally flipped the positions of Intel and AMD.
- formerly_proven 6y agoPreviously the cache and memory subsystem were identified as a very significant weak spot in the Zen 2 architecture. These are essentially completely gone now. The changes to the core also contribute a lot, but just rectifying the memory subsystem seemed to have had a huge impact.
- wmf 6y agoThe difference in performance between 3700X (32MB cache) and 4700G (8MB cache) is very small. I think AMD's advantage is the core; it's just better.