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by hinkley 2793 days ago
Does SRAM size here have a practical effect on cache speed? Or is it mostly just down to real estate budget?
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The numbers here are just real estate - speed is going to be a big "it depends" that can't really be predicted just from area.

(in general, cache speed is more affected by size, and that's an architectural decision -- see, for example, Intel's move to a 1MB L2 in Skylake-X instead of a 256KB L2 (11 cycles -> 13 cycles, but Intel did a lot of work to try to speed up the cache to reduce the pain)).