what is the difference between level II and level III Cache?

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ApollenaBabe

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Hello everybody,

So I'm currently taking a computer course at a community college and seem to be having difficulty trying to figure out the differences of level II and level III cache's. I'm a noob when it comes to technology so you might have to "dumb-it-down" for me in a sense (please be nice though).
Thanks!
 
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emdea22
consider l3 cache as the main pipeline to your CPU cores. Without going into technical terms it mostly helps load distribution among cores. Using that logic you can consider the l2 cache as the pipeline of each core. So the more cores you have the more l3 you need to take advantage of each of them.

Of course its not that simple and there are other functions and performance depends on other factors but thats the simplest way i can think of explaining it.
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consider l3 cache as the main pipeline to your CPU cores. Without going into technical terms it mostly helps load distribution among cores. Using that logic you can consider the l2 cache as the pipeline of each core. So the more cores you have the more l3 you need to take advantage of each of them.

Of course its not that simple and there are other functions and performance depends on other factors but thats the simplest way i can think of explaining it.
 
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