How much does modern cache make a difference?

[Dubesta11]

Sorry if this has been posted already, but I think it would apply better in today's modern CPUs. 

 

i3-4130: 3M L3

i5-4570: 6M L3

FX-6300: 8M L3

 

What does this mean, and where does it make a difference?

[ZetZet]

It does make a difference, but you shouldn't look at it. i3 and i5 both outperform 6300 in most tasks, especially games.

[Dubesta11]

It does make a difference, but you shouldn't look at it. i3 and i5 both outperform 6300 in most tasks, especially games.

 

I know that, I was just wondering it would be worth upgrading from an i3 to an i5 just because the cache will make a big difference (ie, slow down the i3), not because of the cores. Difference in price is about 60 dollars.

[ZetZet]

I know that, I was just wondering it would be worth upgrading from an i3 to an i5 just because the cache will make a big difference (ie, slow down the i3), not because of the cores. Difference in price is about 60 dollars.

It's not the cache. All proccesors have plenty of cache by design, it would be stupid for manufacturer to bottleneck their own CPU with not enough cache.

[harrynowl]

I know that, I was just wondering it would be worth upgrading from an i3 to an i5 just because the cache will make a big difference (ie, slow down the i3), not because of the cores. Difference in price is about 60 dollars.

Don't buy a CPU for it's cache. A lot of L2 cache CPUs (or AMD APUs) can still hold well in modern games / applications.

[Manny Calavera]

Cache is mostly for memory intensive workloads and splitting workload to cores.

Whatever ( mainstream ones you wrote ) proc you happen to buy, it has enough cache for what they were designed.

 

No smart gamer who is buying proc will ever look to buy cuple hundreds more expensive proc over 4930k just because it has more cache...

[Faa]

L3 cache is usually shared between all the cores, so it makes sense that you would use more L3 cache for a cpu with more cores. Dont think it has been proved that more L3 does better because a chip with more L3 cache usually has more L1 & L2 cache that arent shared except for bulldozer (only L2)

[flibberdipper]

It makes "meh" difference, in my opinion. The i3 tends to outpace the 6300, anyways. Better single core performance means a lot.