03-14-2015, 06:44 AM
(This post was last modified: 03-14-2015, 06:44 AM by RolloTheGreat.)
(03-14-2015, 06:30 AM)gstanford Wrote:Quote:I just find the 10% gains each year quite pathetic.Feel free to design and manufacture your own CPU that does better. Hint - ripping out the iGPU and replacing it with 4 more cores software will barely use won't get you there - it will worsen performance for some cases like video encoding that can utilize QuickSync.
Reposted for obvious truth.
AMD was horribly, tragically wrong about "moar corez" being the path forward. For most things computer gaming related, IPC >>> cores in a big way.
Observe the beat down a 3GHz 4 core 2500K gives AMDs 8 core, 5GHz, 8b Watt monstrosity:
http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/har...-5ghz.html