Not that much. Each generation there was maybe 7% perf improvement so in 6 years: 1.07^6=1.50. Improvement was mostly with adding more cores. This ~1.5x in sin

Not that much. Each generation there was maybe 7% perf improvement so in 6 years: 1.07^6=1.50. Improvement was mostly with adding more cores. This ~1.5x in single thread performance improvement matches with stats from geekbench.com benchmark: my macbook pro 2012 cpu: i7-3615QM => 3093 single thread [1] equivalent current gen cpu with same TDP (45W) and similar clock (2.3GHz): i7-8750H => 4617 single thread [2] [1] https://browser.geekbench.com/processors/741 https://browser.geekbench.com/processors/741 [2] https://browser.geekbench.com/processors/2144 https://browser.geekbench.com/processors/2144