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Could anyone offer any tips for evaluating processors in this post-megahertz age? My 2012 Macbook Air (base 11" model) has a 1.7 GHz Core i5 processor, yet I un
by rm445 12y ago
Could anyone offer any tips for evaluating processors in this post-megahertz age? My 2012 Macbook Air (base 11" model) has a 1.7 GHz Core i5 processor, yet I understand the 1.4 GHz (Haswell) Core i5 in the latest machines performs significantly better.
Is the generation of the processor always the dominant factor nowadays? Is there a convenient way to estimate performance without poring over benchmarks? What are people's favourite sites for finding out about these things?
- Tuna-Fish 12y ago> Is the generation of the processor always the dominant factor nowadays? No. > Is there a convenient way to estimate performance without poring over benchmarks? Unless you are willing to quite a lot of time learning, not really. And unless you've been willing to do that, you haven't been able to conveniently estimate performance for about 14 years now. > What are people's favourite sites for finding out about these things? http://www.anandtech.com/bench/ http://www.anandtech.com/bench/ is pretty good, as they standardize all results into a convenient database with easy head-to-head comparisons.
- moe 12y agoPassMark: http://www.cpubenchmark.net/ http://www.cpubenchmark.net/
- themaen 12y agohttp://www.notebookcheck.net/Mobile-Processors-Benchmarklist.2436.0.html http://www.notebookcheck.net/Mobile-Processors-Benchmarklist...
- szatkus 12y agoTomshardware has the good benchmarks for "hacker" usage. In my opinion Phoronix does the best job about benchmarking, but usually you must wait a little.