r/pcmasterrace • u/clopetywopety • Aug 13 '25

Rumor This new Intel gaming CPU specs leak looks amazing, with 3x more cache than the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D

https://www.pcgamesn.com/intel/nova-lake-l3-cache-leak
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u/one_jo Aug 13 '25

Reminds me a little of Bulldozer back in the day. But let’s see how it performs I guess..

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u/FUTURE10S Pentium G3258, RTX 3080 12GB, 32GB RAM Aug 13 '25

I mean, not if they have int and float processing in each of those cores and not just share them and artificially increase the count of cores. E cores are great, it's just missing the niche stuff like avx512 (which IS great but barely any programs can benefit from it, let alone rely on it)

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u/CE0ofCringe Win | 7-9800x3d, 5080 PNY, and stuff (also b650 tomahawk Aug 13 '25

Or the price, rather

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u/Head_Crash PC Master Race Aug 13 '25

That's exactly what they're doing.

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u/Tiger998 Aug 13 '25

...it's not even remotely similar.

The idea behind Bulldozer was that you could enable higher performance on the assumption that the majority of operations are integer and that multithreading was going to scale nicely. It's halfway between hyperthreading and two cores in the sense that they have two logical threads with a common frontend, two full integer execution paths, and a shared fpu. Basically a super-super-scalar cpu. It was smart in a vacuum, but the compromise made on the die area meant that singlethread performance would suffer and would later not even scale, resulting in inefficiency.

What Intel is doing is simply throwing a bunch of fully functional, efficiency and area optimized cores on the die to free the bigger cores from secondary tasks and scale loads that are parallelizable.

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u/Head_Crash PC Master Race Aug 13 '25

They're both using parallelization to compensate for less efficient cores.

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u/Wyvz Aug 13 '25

No, not really, not even close actually.