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Broadwell and Skylake brings nothing much substantial. Ironically, Broadwell's 128MB L4 cache did bring a substantial performance boost to a whole range of rea
by pmjordan 8y ago
Broadwell and Skylake brings nothing much substantial.
Ironically, Broadwell's 128MB L4 cache did bring a substantial performance boost to a whole range of real-world applications, but it seems it's so expensive to manufacture that they've subsequently dropped the feature except for Apple's iMacs and expensive laptops.
- phire 8y agoHaswell massively improved the branch predictor, which gave a significant IPC boost to many real-world workloads (especially emulation and interpreters).
- charleslmunger 8y agoHow much of that boost remains after patches to Spectre and meltdown?
- Const-me 8y agoI have an inexpensive laptop with i3-6157u, with 64MB eDRAM. And yes, performance boost is substantial, for e.g. C++ compiler.