The inversion is the part I didn't expect: the dense Zen 6c is now the top IPC core (full 4MB L3 per core), and the old classic design is the high-frequency one. They also tried not to leave a software-visible gap, so the same optimizations still apply to both.
agreed.. Full-size L3 plus more generously sized reordering buffers.
I'm curious if there might be a mixed-CCD desktop part in the future; A 12-core frequency-oriented CCD + 32-core dense CCD would be quite a beast. Any workload that can scale to 16+ cores would almost certainly love to have double the cores at a bit less frequency...
I'm curious if there might be a mixed-CCD desktop part in the future; A 12-core frequency-oriented CCD + 32-core dense CCD would be quite a beast. Any workload that can scale to 16+ cores would almost certainly love to have double the cores at a bit less frequency...
Very rare to see an inteviewer who has tested to that level and can say "gee you increased L2 hit rate by XX how'd you do that?"