Monday, April 25, 2011

What is Last Level Cache (LLC)?

You must have heard of L2 cache which is nothing but Level 2 cache. The next level, that is Level 3 cache in Intel processors is called as Last Level Cache. In multi-core Intel processors, the LLC is shared not only between each CPU core, but also between the GPU(Graphics processing unit) core. With ring bus structure, LLC shortens the access latency for CPU and GPU cores.

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