What would be the equivalent 4th or 5th gen cpu?

[krooton]

I'm trying to find out how much life I have in my 4.7ghz 2700k, any ideas what modern cpu gives similar performance at stock?

 

[FloppyPoppy]

Not sure Is there any particular benchmarks you would want to run? I can possibly run a few for you on a 5820k at stock

 

[pastymuncher]

If I remember right a Sandybridge at 4.7Ghz is similar to a Haswell at 4.2ghz. Something along the lines of knock 500mhz off what a Sandy can do and that's what the equivalent Haswell is although it is dependant on what you are doing as you can see from the Cinebench R15 thread. Sanybridge is still up there in amongst Haswell i7's and even beating many of them. You still have a very good cpu and I wouldn't be looking to change it at least until Skylake is launched in August.

 

[setter]

From SB onwards, its roughly 10% performance improvement with each generation. I skipped sb myself but owned ivy i7, 4770k and 4790k. Upgrades weren't that significant tbh.

 

[krooton]

Cheers guys, looks like I am good to wait for DDR4 and the like to drop in price