2 caches have grown from around 128KB per core in the 90s to today’s 512KB to 1MB, sometimes even 2MB, per core. But it’s the L3 cache sizes that have really ballooned. Intel’s various mainstream Core processors have included 8MB of L3 cache going back to the Bloomfield and Lynnfield chips in the late 2000s. In contrast, AMD chose to put
