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by treesciencebot 1062 days ago
This is a similar hack to what AMD does with their new 3D-series processors with two CCDs (or clusters following this article's terminology). One of them has a higher clock count but the other one has much more L3 cache. Since their target is gamers (at least at the consumer level chips), they basically ship a driver which detects when you launch a game and "parks" the low-cache CCD from being assigned tasks which effectively dispatches your processes to the high-cache ccd.
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EPYC SKUs with 3D cache also exist. Though I’m not 100% sure if it uses heterogenous chiplet approach that is seen in consumer RYZEN chips.