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Cache

Main article: Skylake § Cache

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Cache Organization
Cache is a hardware component containing a relatively small and extremely fast memory designed to speed up the performance of a CPU by preparing ahead of time the data it needs to read from a relatively slower medium such as main memory.

The organization and amount of cache can have a large impact on the performance, power consumption, die size, and consequently cost of the IC.

Cache is specified by its size, number of sets, associativity, block size, sub-block size, and fetch and write-back policies.

Note: All units are in kibibytes and mebibytes.
L1$256 KiB
262,144 B
0.25 MiB
L1I$128 KiB
131,072 B
0.125 MiB
4x32 KiB8-way set associative 
L1D$128 KiB
131,072 B
0.125 MiB
4x32 KiB8-way set associativewrite-back

L2$1 MiB
1,024 KiB
1,048,576 B
9.765625e-4 GiB
  4x256 KiB4-way set associativewrite-back

L3$8 MiB
8,192 KiB
8,388,608 B
0.00781 GiB
  4x2 MiB write-back
l1$ size256 KiB (262,144 B, 0.25 MiB) +
l1d$ description8-way set associative +
l1d$ size128 KiB (131,072 B, 0.125 MiB) +
l1i$ description8-way set associative +
l1i$ size128 KiB (131,072 B, 0.125 MiB) +
l2$ description4-way set associative +
l2$ size1 MiB (1,024 KiB, 1,048,576 B, 9.765625e-4 GiB) +
l3$ size8 MiB (8,192 KiB, 8,388,608 B, 0.00781 GiB) +