[dragontamer]

AMD shoves 512kB of L2 per core in Zen3, and 1MB of L2 per core in Zen4.

I'm pretty sure Zen3 has more SRAM (aka: L2 cache) than the M1/M2 (128kb + 192kB is a LOT of L1 cache, but its still less SRAM than what AMD is stuffing into its cores).

Even with all the extra register files + ROB buffer (also SRAM), the M1 just ain't getting close to 512kB L2 alone (plus all the L1 I$ and L1 D$, and uOp cache, and ROB and Register Files and 256-bit AVX registers on the Zen3).

If anything, bringing up the Apple L1 cache vs AMD L1/L2 per-core caches just emphasizes how big Apple's logic units are in comparison.