That's not quite accurate. Every core has access to the entire L3, including the L3 on an entirely different socket. CPUs communicate through caches, so if a core just plain couldn't talk to another core's cache then cache coherency algorithms wouldn't work. Though a core can access the entire cache, the latency is higher when going off-die. It is really high when going to another socket.
The first generation of Epyc had a complicated hierarchy that made latency quite hard to predict, but the new architecture is simpler. A CPU can talk to a cache in the same package but on a different die with reasonably low latency.
The first generation of Epyc had a complicated hierarchy that made latency quite hard to predict, but the new architecture is simpler. A CPU can talk to a cache in the same package but on a different die with reasonably low latency.
(I don't have numbers. Still reading.)