Well, the 3D models of ryzen have shown the slightly larger cache to have major performance impacts but only in some areas of use. Auto CAD, video rendering, etc. Basically the same places you'd need more cores. Tests run on games, noncore intensive programs, etc., show no real change in performance from the extra cache size. I think it's a situation of STILL waiting for programs to catch up to technology
It depends on the game. Simulation games see a large boost in performance with 3D v-cache.
truth, but that's also where cores come into play also. it's still, sadly, niche. Multicore has been a thing for 20 years now, and there's still a very large chunk of stuff that doesn't utilize it
If you get down to it, it's all cache, except perhaps the final mass storage. It's just a matter of how automatic caching and flushing is. And we've definitely found that 16GB of RAM makes a good difference in general performance.
Completely agree. I think my fear is having a computer you can't work on. I'd rather be able to change our parts, than gain any % of performance increase
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