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Level 3 cache

Level 3 cache

Extracted from the Wikipedia article CPU cache.

Victim cache

Intel's Crystalwell variant of its Haswell processors introduced an on-package 128 MiB eDRAM Level 4 cache which serves as a victim cache to the processors' Level 3 cache. In the Skylake microarchitecture the Level 4 cache no longer works as a victim cache.