[GTALUG] processor progress sure has slowed down
Digimer
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Fri Jan 6 22:30:17 EST 2017
On 06/01/17 08:31 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
> I got an ad from NCIX for systems with Intel's new Kaby Lake processors.
> Here's the headline:
>
> UP TO
> [LARGER FONT] 28% BETTER PERFORMANCE* [/LARGER FONT]
> versus a 3-year-old-desktop
>
> The footnote shows that a i7-7700K processor system was being compared
> with a i7-4770K. Some of the improvement would be in DDR4 vs DDR3 and so
> on. OS and video card were the same. The power requirement of the CPU
> went up slightly.
>
> You'd normally expect a 7xxx processor to be compared with a 6xxx
> procecessor, but they've reached back an extra two generations to show
> even a modest 28% improvement.
>
> There are useful features added to the processors since the Haswell
> generation. Like a working TSX-NI: Haswell had it, with bugs, so Intel
> suppressed it with a microcode update. Not completely fair since the K
> models never had it.
>
> Intel has put a lot of extra transistors into on-chip video, something
> useful at least sometimes. Perhaps this shows where Intel feels it needs
> to compete -- AMD has a better on-chip GPU but an uncompetitive CPU. One
> can only hope that AMD's Zen/Ryzen lives up to AMD's talk.
Murphy's law hit the laws of physics...
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