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Broadwell Preview (anands)

Orangey said:
Thing is these "5%" and "10%" improvements aren't in games or even general use, it's certain synthetics and a few workstation type workloads. Plus the newer arch's can't touch Sandy for clocks. So it just evens out or actually leaves with you slightly less performance 4 years after Sandy shipped. :(
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Yeah, keep seeing threads where people total up these 5% this gen, 10% that gen to come to the conclusion that current gen chips are way faster per clock.... which simply isn't true :( In some situations a new chip may be 5% faster per clock, but not all, and if the subsequent gen is 10% faster than the previous that doesn't make it 15% faster than the one before as the situations where the gains are made tend to be different. (Also, if the logic had been right, it'd be a compound calculation not an addition, ok not much in it with only 2 gens but still!)
 
its a notrmal boost. Broadwell is not new architecture, its refresh of Haswell. Never before and never in future cant be more than 3-5% gain with refresh of architecture. The future will be slowest and slowest, because there is x86 software issues. All is about XOP, FMA, AVX support. Classic older and daily programs are without the latest instruction sets. The times of 4.86, Pentium, Pentium II are gone. Forever. The same will be with ARM. The limits of ARM coming soon.
 
setter said:
Currently running my 4790k at stock, and tbh im not seeing any problems with games using gtx 780 sli.
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yea although it's maybe only 7% faster than my old i5, plus doesn't OC as well, it's still much more powerful in other ways.
you'll never be able to overclock a new CPU like you once could, those days are gone
 
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As mentioned, its a die shrink this time around not a new architecture, so although a few bits have been added, it is more about power efficiency.
 
setter said:
Currently running my 4790k at stock, and tbh im not seeing any problems with games using gtx 780 sli.
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well my i5 2500 was at 4.6...........my new rig is only at 3.8 but it is miles faster,
this could be due to much better SSD....MOBO.....not the 7990, that's not fitted yet.....so it does make you think.
 
well im really looking forward to the t300 chi using broadwell - fanless design ... need a laptop like that. Almost forced to get a tablet but really don't want it since I prefer full windows features instead of android
 
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