When shopping for a new CPU, you're likely to come across many different CPU specifications, such as cores, clock speed, TDP, and manufacturing process. Another important aspect of CPU hardware is ...

A CPU relies on various kinds of storage to optimally run programs and power a computer. These include components like hard disks and SSDs for long-term storage, RAM and GPU memory for fast ...

There are three levels of Processor Cache viz; L1, L2, and L3. The more of L2 and L3 cache your system has, the faster will the data be fetched, the faster will the program be executed and the ...

L1 and L2 cache specs for Nvidia's new RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 have cropped up. HardwareLuxx reports that the RTX 5090 and 5080 have the same L1 cache capacity per SM as the 4090 and 4080 ...

For example an MP3 decode is more than 40% faster with a 256K L2 cache when the cache miss penalty is 144 CPU cycles. The following graphs show how the L2 cache behaves ... a smaller proportion of the ...