[giyanani]

Those numbers aren’t directly comparable — caches usually trade off size for performance, and Apple’s L1 sits in performance somewhere between Ryzen’s L1 and L2. Ditto for Apple’s L2 versus Ryzen’s L2 and L3.

I can’t remember the exact article I read that in, but it’s pretty obvious when looking at Anandtech’s latency charts.

M1 latency: https://www.anandtech.com/show/17024/apple-m1-max-performanc...

Ryzen latency: https://www.anandtech.com/show/16214/amd-zen-3-ryzen-deep-di...

[KingOfCoders]

Thanks! To anyone else looking at the graphs, beware they are logarithmic.