INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTERS
COMPUTER SYSTEMS AND COMPONENTS
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Level 1
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Level 2
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Level 3
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -L3 cache is the largest and also the slowest (the 3rd Gen Ryzen CPUs feature a large L3 cache of up to 64MB) cache level. L2 and L1 are much smaller and faster than L3 and are separate for each core.
Detailed explanation-2: -Level 3 (L3) cache is specialized memory developed to improve the performance of L1 and L2. L1 or L2 can be significantly faster than L3, though L3 is usually double the speed of DRAM. With multicore processors, each core can have dedicated L1 and L2 cache, but they can share an L3 cache.
Detailed explanation-3: -At the simplest level, an L3 cache is just a larger, slower version of the L2 cache. Back when most chips were single-core processors, this was generally true.
Detailed explanation-4: -Level 3 (L3) cache memory has the largest capacity and is situated on the computer that uses the L2 cache.