AMD made some key changes to its second generation 3D V-Cache design that allows it to be more flexible with clock speeds, and rumor has it that both the upcoming Ryzen 9 9950X3D and Ryzen 9 9900X3D ...

Ryzen 7 9850X3D processor kicks up the clocks and packs the same extra-fast cache in an effort to outpace the well-regarded ...

CPUs have a number of caching levels. We've discussed cache structures generally, in our L1 & L2 explainer, but we haven't spent as much time discussing how an L3 works or how it's different compared ...

AMD's Zen 4 CPUs are the company's second-generation version of the technology, as it first appeared on the Ryzen 7 5800X3D in the Zen 3 days. Both versions are technically similar, with a 64MB L3 ...

March 21, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan HPC Comments Off on “Milan-X” 3D Vertical Cache Yields Epyc HPC Bang For The Buck Boost Last fall ahead of the SC21 supercomputing conference, AMD said it was ...

Necessity is the mother of invention, and advances in chip packaging are catching up to those in transistor design when it comes to working in three dimensions instead of the much more limited two.