dang. the dual-socket AMD Turin "Volcano" platform has half a gigabyte of L3 cache.
there's as much cache in that server as there was RAM in my first gaming rig.
@gsuberland I think that's the size of the spinny hard drive on the first main host (mail, news, web, DNS was on a slightly slower 386/25) that we used for the ISP I was part of starting way back when.
@gsuberland I’ve owned computers was less hard disk space than that.
@gsuberland lol that's larger than the hard drive on my first two PCs. My first "gaming" PC (on which I learned Quake) had 48MB of RAM and it (PPro 200) was an absolute monster for a uni student in early 1997.
Also it'd be interesting to know the relative latency (in CPU cycle count) to snort a line from that L3 vs reading from primary DRAM on your first gaming PC.
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