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I guess you’ve never heard of thread scheduling and how hit or miss it is. This solves that problem. Even better if clock speeds can also be higher.
It is quite the contrary to what you say. Scheduling will now be even more important to the point it becomes SUPER-DUPER-MEGA-EXTRA-important with cache on both CCDs. For this dual cache setup to work correctly, games/apps (via the scheduler) always need to request the cached data from the "correct" cache on the "correct" CCD or else you will suffer latencies from hell if/when data needs to be fetched from the cache across the CCDs because e.g. Core 3 requests data that was previously stored to the cache by Core 14 on the other CCD. Can't have a scenario like that. Ever.
So, both the scheduler and the CPU always need to "know" exactly "who" (which core) cached something (what) and where it was cached to avoid the dreaded inter-CCD and inter-cache latencies. This is definitely going to be a challenge and very complex on the level of correct scheduling and correct CCD assignment etc.
AMD does not exactly have the best track record when it comes to these scheduling and core assignment shenanigans so I would be quite surprised if they get this to work flawlessly out of the gate.
Personally, I have avoided multi CCD CPUs like the plague due to the Xbox GameBar and 'GameMode On' requirements (I have a PC and not a console, you muppets). It will be interesting to see if the GameBar requirement will be dropped now(?) since core parking will no longer be required.
We'll have to wait and see how well this is gonna work in practice. I would expect some growing pains, to say the least...
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