pizapower

How much change is needed before you consider an architecture to be different from its predecessor?
 
My interest only really starts from Sandy Bridge onwards, and each change has bought with it measurable IPC improvements in the FP performance. Sandy Bridge introduced AVX instructions, which gave ~2x the best performance of before, and I consider this my minimum operating level today. Haswell extended that with FMA. For my use of it, that's another 50% IPC boost on top. Skylake didn't add new there, but the cycle times were optismised, and the end result is about 14% IPC increase over Haswell. Moving onto Skylake-X derivatives, AVX-512 is another up to 2x improvement over Skylake.
 
Zen and Zen+ were designed to be low in FP performance, and in practice were around Sandy Bridge levels. Only since Zen 2 have they finally caught up (and slightly overtaken) Intel consumer CPUs, but still lag behind AVX-512 parts with no signs of adding meaningful support. I'm still not done with my own testing, but while the Zen 2 cores are for sure strong, they also gain further uplift from generous if split L3 caches to mitigate their lack of general bandwidth. If rumours I've heard so far of Zen 3 come true, that would be even nicer.
 
Suppose my beef is that saying Intel haven't changed architecture in 10 years is like saying Zen 2 is the same as original Zen. They're not. Each iteration builds upon the past. You get some smaller gains in some areas, bigger gains in others. See below for some of my past testing I did on Skylake vs Zen(+). I still need to fully test for Zen 2. Can't find my WIP on it but they're somewhere in these forums.
 
 

Intel is Intel.

Intel is Intel.

I still remember Dimitri and his catchphrase ''I need my water''

Those pretty rare Shelby GT500 are now worth more than $100k.

Those pretty rare Shelby GT500 are now worth more than $100k.

Like I said, those cheap SSDs are crap. The MX500 is one of the cheapest good SSD.

The MX500 series is still the king of best bang for the buck SSD. My Win10 is on my 850 EVO 250gb and my games are on my MX500 SSD. No RAMless SSD for me.

Fallout 4

Like I said, those cheap SSDs are crap. The MX500 is one of the cheapest good SSD.

thats fairly off-topic..... its doing fine, no real rust to be seen. 
 
well good thing you really dont have to care about QLC flash when you have about 80GB of SLC cache to spare when you have to write something. 
 
and the Sabrent rocket uses TLC. so the mx500 nolonger has the crown. 

Party time!

RIP  Bass-T

No bass this time
 

Gamers delight

ghosts are everywhere

RIP FALCO

She's a good girl. She was framed by the fridge.

She's a good girl. She was framed by the fridge.

I have a wireless numpad and a 75% keyboard.

She's a good girl. She was framed by the fridge.

Street Legal Redline

Customization is very good but handling not that good.