Single core performance in CPU intensive applications really improved between Nehalem/SNB/IVB/Haswell actually. [1] is a benchmark of the Dolphin Emulator (most

Single core performance in CPU intensive applications really improved between Nehalem/SNB/IVB/Haswell actually. [1] is a benchmark of the Dolphin Emulator (mostly single threaded performance) on a variety of recent CPUs that shows this. [1] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AunYlOAfGABxdFQ0UzJyTFAxbzZhYWtGcGwySlRFa1E#gid=0 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AunYlOAfGABxdFQ...