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I remember reading this news (and perhaps even this exact article - it certainly feels familiar) back when it was released and being so excited as a 15 year old

by NamTaf 10y ago

I remember reading this news (and perhaps even this exact article - it certainly feels familiar) back when it was released and being so excited as a 15 year old gaming nerd. It really was a time when stuff was changing so rapidly - and those changes were resulting in massive, really obvious performance gains - that you couldn't help but just look forward to where it might go if the pace continued. Everything was about the big frequency numbers and it was easy to buy into the hype. It'd be interesting to know the sort of IPC delta between a Netburst architecture and Kaby Lake. Also, it'd be interesting to know how theoretically fast you'd have to push Netburst to see the same performance as Kaby Lake.

dr_zoidberg 10y ago
This is from 2011, but it should give you an idea: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/processor-architecture-benchmark,2974-15.html http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/processor-architecture-b... . tl;dr: Core i7-2600k @ 3GHz, is about 2,67x faster than a Pentium 4 HT 660 (Prescott ua) @ 3Ghz. In the benchmark they tested single core, and equal clock, to keep everything as level as posible. As for single core performance, Kaby Lake would be between 30 to 40% better than Sandy Bridge (which could be called the peak improvement architecture in the Core i brand), so it'd be about ~3,5x faster than the Prescott based chips.