Seeing that the Lion Cove L3 cache takes ~83 cycles while the previous generation was only ~68 cycles explains why Lion Cove is an utter dud of a CPU for gaming and why it loses to the Raptor Cove in so many gaming benchmarks.
Meanwhile, the Zen 5 is only 47 cycles, and if you get the X3D variant, you get a TON of that L3 cache, which just turbo-charges games.
How did Intel allow such a major performance regression in their L3 cache?
Meanwhile, the Zen 5 is only 47 cycles, and if you get the X3D variant, you get a TON of that L3 cache, which just turbo-charges games.
How did Intel allow such a major performance regression in their L3 cache?