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Of course they are not linearly scalable across generation, but last significant performance improvement was in Sandy Bridge. Let's compare for example i5-2500
by SomeoneFromCA 6y ago
Of course they are not linearly scalable across generation, but last significant performance improvement was in Sandy Bridge. Let's compare for example i5-2500 and i3-9100, more or less similar chips in terms of the number of cores and cpu freq. Their single thread performance (normalized per GHz) is within 25% from each other. In the last 10 years we've got 25% increase in IPC. If we compare with slightly more modern CPU's such i5-3570 it becomes even more laughable meager 10%. So, yeah we are reaching the limit of IPC, if not reached already.