> 5 years behind for a system you can actually use is pretty decent IMO. Yes, Intel chips aren't much faster now than they were 5 years ago. I vaguely remember

> 5 years behind for a system you can actually use is pretty decent IMO. Yes, Intel chips aren't much faster now than they were 5 years ago. I vaguely remember reading on Anandtech that Haswell was the last generation that Intel was able to increase the IPC (instructions per cycle) by 15% over the previous generation, and nowadays the typical generational improvement is ~5%. According to my calculations, that would mean that the latest generation of Intel chips would be ~27% faster than the Elbrus: (1 + 5%)^5 - 1