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Intel Adds More L3 Cache to Its Tiger Lake CPUs

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2019/09/17 09:45:57 (permalink)
https://www.techpowerup.com/259285/intel-adds-more-l3-cache-to-its-tiger-lake-cpus
 
InstLatX64 has posted a CPU dump of Intel's next-generation 10 nm CPUs codenamed Tiger Lake. With the CPUID of 806C0, this Tiger Lake chip runs at 1000 MHz base and 3400 MHz boost clocks which is lower than the current Ice Lake models, but that is to be expected given that this might be just an engineering sample, meaning that production/consumer revision will have better frequency.

Perhaps one of the most interesting findings this dump shows is the new L3 cache configuration. Up until now Intel usually put 2 MB of L3 cache per each core, however with Tiger Lake, it seems like the plan is to boost the amount of available cache. Now we are going to get 50% more L3 cache resulting in 3 MB per core or 12 MB in total for this four-core chip. Improved cache capacity can result in additional latency because of additional distance data needs to travel to get in and out of cache, but Intel's engineers surely solved this problem. Additionally, full AVX512 support is present except avx512_bf which supports bfloat16 floating-point variation found in Cooper Lake Xeons.
 
Interesting if this is true. Intel is actually innovating?
 
 

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    Re: Intel Adds More L3 Cache to Its Tiger Lake CPUs 2019/09/21 11:21:04 (permalink)
    Its not mentioned in the article, but it seems that Tiger Lake will stick with the Ice Lake 10nm+ design, rather than make the next jump to 10nm++ as was expected.  I would have expected a desktop version after Rocket Lake if it were the 10nm++ design, but perhaps these will stick with laptops and desktop enthusiasts will have to wait for what comes after Tiger Lake.

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    Re: Intel Adds More L3 Cache to Its Tiger Lake CPUs 2019/09/21 12:27:47 (permalink)
    Well Intel must have seen an improvement in performance ...

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    Re: Intel Adds More L3 Cache to Its Tiger Lake CPUs 2019/09/21 12:31:17 (permalink)
     Improvement in performance from Intel, not in the last 10 years...
     
    Intel needs to get off their butts and start doing better!
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