Intel's L1 & L2 &L3 Cache - CPUs - CPUs - Tom's Hardware: Hardware News, Tests and Reviews
L1 cache is the smallest and fastest. L2 is slower and larger, L3 is yet slower and larger. Also, in current designs, each core gets its own dedicated L1 and L2, but L3 is shared between all the cores. As for the size? The CPUs aren't shrinking. In many c...