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2 times faster would be quite good actually. Sadly we're barely at 50% faster per core, and that's including the usual 20-30% frequency bump on newer models. Pu
by close04 8y ago
2 times faster would be quite good actually. Sadly we're barely at 50% faster per core, and that's including the usual 20-30% frequency bump on newer models. Pure IPC improvement is even lower, at maybe 2-5% per generation (~30% total at same frequency, 2nd gen vs. 7th gen).
Yeah, you could argue that doubling the core or thread count doubled performance in selected software but the reality is that for real world use, excluding specific corner cases, the improvement is hard to notice.
A reason to upgrade is to have a newer platform and the features that would bring, definitely not the CPU.