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It doesn't matter if it is faster until it starts throttling. i9 is intended for pros who need that CPU power for longer periods of time. And if the issue appea
by Jnr 8y ago
It doesn't matter if it is faster until it starts throttling. i9 is intended for pros who need that CPU power for longer periods of time. And if the issue appears after a minute of usage and performance becomes worse than i7 (as shown in initial Dave's video), then it's a bad product (Macbook, because of not being able to cool it, not the i9 itself).
And benchmarks should be changed to run for longer time periods or else it's not showing actual performance indication.
- matthewmacleod 8y agoIt doesn't matter if it is faster until it starts throttling. i9 is intended for pros who need that CPU power for longer periods of time What's the evidence for this? I'd love a faster multi-core processor, but only to accelerate tasks which complete in a relatively small amount of time already.
- simcop2387 8y agoIntel's own marketing talks about it being used by these kinds of people https://newsroom.intel.com/news/intel-core-i9-processor-comes-mobile-best-gaming-creation-laptop-processor-intel-ever-built/ https://newsroom.intel.com/news/intel-core-i9-processor-come...
- seabrookmx 8y agoThe optimization argument is that even after throttling, if the software was optimized for the 6core machines it would no longer be slower than the i7 after one minute. But that's yet to be seen. As of this moment in time you're correct.. buying the i9 model makes zero sense.