Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by kllrnohj 2033 days ago
> amd zen has 2x16mb L3s

Zen 3 is not, it's a single 32MB L3 per chiplet.

> L3 is muuuuch slower than L2.

"L2" and "L3" are just how many layers away from the CPU it is, it's not an intrinsic "type" of cache. The speed is a function of the size.