Intel ice lake doubles cache size l1 and l2, all the details

Ice Lake is the name of Intel's next high-performance CPU microarchitecture, designed for the 10nm silicon manufacturing process, which is already more than five years behind schedule, but should finally arrive in 2019.

Intel Ice Lake builds on new high-performance architecture

The results of engineering samples of dual-core Ice Lake processors in the GeekBench database noted something curious, Intel has increased the L1 and L2 cache sizes compared to previous generations. The L1 data cache has been expanded to 48 KB from Coffee Lake's 32 KB, and the L2 cache has doubled in size to 512 KB, from today's 256 KB.

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The L1 instruction cache is still 32 KB in size, while the shared L3 cache for this dual-core chip is 4 MB. The Ice Lake chip in question is still a general version of the microarchitecture, and not an enterprise version, which has had a rebalanced cache hierarchy since Skylake-X, which combined large 1MB L2 caches with relatively smaller shared L3 caches.

The current Coffee Lake processors are a slight evolution at the architectural level of the Kaby Lake, which in turn are a very light evolution of Skylake. This means that Intel has been using the same architecture for the past three generations of processors. Ice Lake could finally be the big evolution that all high-end users are waiting for. We will still have to wait long to see what are finally all the improvements that are introduced in the Intel Ice Lake processors.