itsmydamnation
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"At its top overclock of 4.50 GHz, the i7-6950X achieved a Cinebench R15 score of 2327 points"
https://www.techpowerup.com/222230/intel-core-i7-6950x-tested-against-i7-5960x
What is happening with that new cache?
It's there to facilitate core count increase while at the same time reducing pressure on the L3 from high read and write requirements caused by AVX-512. I pointed it out ages ago in this thread that the cache changes didn't really look like it would make that much of a difference to absolute performance.
But people were convinced there are all these workloads that have really poor ILP but enough predictability and reused enough to be in the cache system, but not enough to be in the L1 or L2 (256kb size).