Hello,
I was wondering if someone could shed some light on why Sandy Bridge outperforms Yorkfield by so much. I know there are the beasts like 2500k, 2600k and even 3930k, but I'm not talking about them. I'm talking about a simple dual-core i5 mobile processor @ 2.5 GHz that was listed as 8% better than my Q9300. Or an i7-2630QM @ 2.0 listed as 78% better. I can understand the i7 case because it has hyper-threading and turbo boost, but what about the i5? Do people take HT and turbo boost into account in benchmarks or is it just that the chip is so much better?
Thanks in advance.
I was wondering if someone could shed some light on why Sandy Bridge outperforms Yorkfield by so much. I know there are the beasts like 2500k, 2600k and even 3930k, but I'm not talking about them. I'm talking about a simple dual-core i5 mobile processor @ 2.5 GHz that was listed as 8% better than my Q9300. Or an i7-2630QM @ 2.0 listed as 78% better. I can understand the i7 case because it has hyper-threading and turbo boost, but what about the i5? Do people take HT and turbo boost into account in benchmarks or is it just that the chip is so much better?
Thanks in advance.