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Great analysis of "Skymont unleashed". What I am curious about: How does the performance of Skymont in Arrow Lake compare to that of the Gracemont E-cores in Raptor Lake? While Crestmont in Meteor Lake had some smaller improvements over Gracemont, the E-core clusters in Meteor Lake regressed vs. those in Raptor Lake in one important aspect: L2 cache per cluster went down from 4 MB in RL to 2 MB in ML. And that must have hurt performance.

Arrow Lake's big problems doesn't stop with the 9000 series Zen 5 from AMD. They are also a bit underwhelming when compared to their predecessor, RL. Which also makes me wonder, just how much faster the Skymonts in Arrow Lake are vs. the Gracemonts in Raptor Lake. Any thoughts? Thanks!

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