I don’t quite follow:
> From a cache hierarchy standpoint, the design groups cores into four-core blocks that share approximately 4 MB of L2 cache per block. As a result, the aggregate last-level cache across the full package surpasses 1 GB, roughly 1,152 MB in total.
If cores are grouped into four-core blocks, and each block has 4MB of cache… isn’t that just 1MB per core? So 288MB total?
HotHardware reports
https://hothardware.com/news/intel-clearwater-forest-xeon-6-...
> these processors pack in up to 288 of the little guys as well as 576MB of last-level cache, 96 PCIe 5.0 lanes, and 12-channel DDR5-8000.
> The Xeon 6+ processors each have up to 12 compute tiles fabbed on 18A, all of which have six quad-core modules for a total of 24 cores per tile. There are also three 'active' base tiles on Intel 3, so-called because the base tiles include 192MB of last-level cache, which is so-called because each compute tile has 48MB of L3 cache.
So maybe 1MB per core L2, then 192MB of basically-L4 per base tile, then 48MB of L3 per compute tile? 192*3+48*12 gets me to the 1152, maybe that’s it.
Anyway, apparently these things will have “AMX” matrix extensions. I wonder if they’ll be good number crunchers.