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> In my opinion, the performance delta between 28nm Sandy Bridge and 14nm Kaby Lake is ridiculously small. Two of my Linux workstations are Sandy Bridge and Ka
by morganvachon 5y ago
> In my opinion, the performance delta between 28nm Sandy Bridge and 14nm Kaby Lake is ridiculously small.
Two of my Linux workstations are Sandy Bridge and Kaby Lake, and my real world experience bears this out. I can't distinguish between the two for everyday use cases; only synthetic benchmarks show any real advantage in the newer system. I can't speak for Windows performance differences, as my only Windows system is my gaming rig with a Ryzen 5 3600, which of course trounces both of the workstations no matter the OS.
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