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You're just not playing the latest games or doing any intensive computations, or just don't care that you could finish your task 3 times faster than on your 200
by ye 13y ago
You're just not playing the latest games or doing any intensive computations, or just don't care that you could finish your task 3 times faster than on your 2008 CPU.
What's your framerate in Battlefield 3 on a 64 player map at 1920x1080, high settings? Or Crysis 3?
- sejje 13y agoYou just picked the most expensive calculation you could, more or less, and asked how a general-purpose PC handles it. A brand new general-purpose PC handles that situation equally well--unplayable.
- ye 13y agoNo, the most expensive would be a 3-monitor setup at 2560x1440 on ultra settings.
- TylerE 13y agoThat's the thing...most games are still not multi-threaded well, and single threaded performance hasn't gone up more than maybe 20-30%, they just tacked on more cores.
- ye 13y agoThat's actually not true. Modern high end CPUs are multiple times faster than the CPUs from 2008. The architecture changed too, not just the frequency.
- TylerE 13y agoI have an i7 920, purchased in December 2008. Please point out which consumer processors (No $3000 xeons) have "multiple times" greater single threaded performance.