Recently purchased a new Dell Inspiron laptop for the wife. This replaces her 10 year old Inspiron. I thought it was about time I updated her laptop after an entire decade of use on the old one.
OK, so this new machine is nothing special, just a base model unit sporting an Intel Core i3 6006U @2 Ghz. The old machine is so ancient that I can't even remember what it had in the way of a CPU but seem to recall the Intel chip used was a dual core unit with a T model name prefix, I think.
OK, so out of curiosity I downloaded CPU-Z and ran it on the old laptop and received a single threaded score of 227. The multi-threaded score wasn't much higher at all on this machine. Fine, so I ran the same version of said benchmarking tool on her new shiny Core i3 6006U and .... the bench returned a single threaded score of just 211 ....
Huh?
Sure, the multi-threaded score was around 589 I think but, seriously, a processor like the 6006U ought to be a huge improvement.
perhaps something is wrong but maybe the mobile segment of Intel's CPU range has seen very little performance improvements in an entire decade. To compare this with desktops, I also built a new desktop machine using a entry level Kaby Lake Pentium G4560 and benched this against my 8 year old Core 2 E8400 in my old desktop and the single and multi threaded performance numbers were in the order of over 4x the score which is sort of what I'd expected.
So, what's happening here with regards the new laptop CPU as the scores I'm seeing for single threaded performance cannot be right ... can they?
OK, so this new machine is nothing special, just a base model unit sporting an Intel Core i3 6006U @2 Ghz. The old machine is so ancient that I can't even remember what it had in the way of a CPU but seem to recall the Intel chip used was a dual core unit with a T model name prefix, I think.
OK, so out of curiosity I downloaded CPU-Z and ran it on the old laptop and received a single threaded score of 227. The multi-threaded score wasn't much higher at all on this machine. Fine, so I ran the same version of said benchmarking tool on her new shiny Core i3 6006U and .... the bench returned a single threaded score of just 211 ....
Huh?
Sure, the multi-threaded score was around 589 I think but, seriously, a processor like the 6006U ought to be a huge improvement.
perhaps something is wrong but maybe the mobile segment of Intel's CPU range has seen very little performance improvements in an entire decade. To compare this with desktops, I also built a new desktop machine using a entry level Kaby Lake Pentium G4560 and benched this against my 8 year old Core 2 E8400 in my old desktop and the single and multi threaded performance numbers were in the order of over 4x the score which is sort of what I'd expected.
So, what's happening here with regards the new laptop CPU as the scores I'm seeing for single threaded performance cannot be right ... can they?
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