Intel CPU performance

[NirK]

Does anyone know in % what the increases between each generation of intel CPU are at the same clocks? What is the biggest % performance increase?

For example :

Core 2 quad 3Ghz 100%
i5 1st gen 3Ghz 125%
i5 2nd gen 3Ghz
etc...

 

[NirK]

I looked it up and its about 10-20% or recently more like 3-10%...

I was looking at whether I should get a Haswell now or wait for Skylake but looking at the past performance increases it will probably be 10-20% at most, so I think I will go for Haswell / Broadwell now as my current CPU is no good anymore for games. Q6700 > Haswell = 100% performance increase, Haswell > Skylake = probably 5-20% increase.

 

[NirK]

We'll have broadwell coming followed later by skylake, tbh im not expecting a big increase in performance with broadwell over current chips. Skylake may be my next move. That or wait until x99 prices settle a bit, particularly ddr4.

Broadwell will probably be more GPU and power saving and maybe 1-5% improvement, think I will go with a i5 haswell now and possibly upgrade to an i7 broadwell. Coming from a Q6700 that will be 2x performance. Will an i5 Haswell be over 60fps for BF4 multiplayer?

 

[NirK]

Cool thanks for that, no I didn't mean that Haswell is 2x the performance at same clocks but I meant a 4690k at stock speeds is about twice the speed of a Q6700 at stock speeds.. Not sure if Passmark is the best benchmark but scores 215%....

Intel Core2 Extreme Q6800 @ 2.93GHz - 3,615

Intel Core i5-4690K @ 3.50GHz - 7,774