Comments by "Winnetou17" (@Winnetou17) on "" video.
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@formdoggie5 I don't know what CPU this x58 is, but since you said it's 12 years old, I think it's not from Intel's Core lineup.
In any case, I can bet you that a last-gen processor, be it either Intel or AMD will beat your x58 @ 5.3 GHz in single threaded performance, while running at 4.0 GHz, while also consuming at most half the power.
Thing is, increasing the frequency does get exponentially harder and it's kind of a hard cap now.
However, the processors kept improving, by making the transistors smaller, and packing more of them. And by having more of them, they have now more cache, more instructions per cycle (literally, not just as a result of better cache), better branch predicition and other small improvements, including non-performance things like better reporting, automatic over and under clocking in order to preserve power or to increase performance while not hitting a thermal throttle.
All in all, there have been real improvements in the hardware of CPUs. They're not so evident though. Compared to a CPU from 12 years ago, I'd say that the new ones are about 50% faster/better at the same clock cycle and core count, while having other significant benefits (mostly power consumption). Compared with the increses seen in the '90, going from 33 MHz to 1000 MHz in about 10 years (I guess, too lazy to check exactly) is much more easier to see. But if we factor multi-core in the performance benefit, the increase has been quite good still.
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