Here’s why it’s so important in gaming and why it pays to maximize it. The CPU cache is a high-speed memory unit located around the CPU that is used to store frequently accessed data and instructions ...

A disk or memory cache that supports writing. Data normally written to memory or to disk by the CPU is first written into the cache. During idle machine cycles, the data are written from the cache ...

The number of cache lines and the cache line width are configurable at synthesis time. The core only caches read accesses and invalidates the cached data if a write access to a cached memory location ...

Above 256 KBytes the data is not found in either cache and has to be transferred to/from system memory. At this point the system yields the lowest performance. Note that the knee of the curve around ...