Since AMD does not put any pressure on Intel on the CPU front, 5-10% CPU performance increase per year become the norm.
The Intel of 2015 still has a very solid competitor eating into its profits: the Intel of 2010-13. I am typing this on a 2600K I bought in 2011, and I have no intention of upgrading any time soon. I have went from 8 GB of RAM to 16 GB, from a 128 GB SSD to a 480 GB SSD, and I upgraded my monitor setup. But my desktop processor is still more than twice as fast as my 4300U work laptop, which I never worry about being slow. I wouldn't be that surprised if this processor lasts me until 2020, unless it stops wor
For some reason I get very nervous with an out of band remote proprietary management system baked into recent Intel chips, which operates below the OS, and has not been independently audited and reviewed by trusted 3rd parties (such as those not associated with mass surveillance). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
Less than 10% is a "solid improvement" these days?
Sadly, yes. Since AMD does not put any pressure on Intel on the CPU front, 5-10% CPU performance increase per year become the norm.
Since AMD does not put any pressure on Intel on the CPU front, 5-10% CPU performance increase per year become the norm.
The Intel of 2015 still has a very solid competitor eating into its profits: the Intel of 2010-13. I am typing this on a 2600K I bought in 2011, and I have no intention of upgrading any time soon. I have went from 8 GB of RAM to 16 GB, from a 128 GB SSD to a 480 GB SSD, and I upgraded my monitor setup. But my desktop processor is still more than twice as fast as my 4300U work laptop, which I never worry about being slow. I wouldn't be that surprised if this processor lasts me until 2020, unless it stops wor
the new Skylake-U mobile chip is about 5 â" 10 faster than Intel's previous generation Broadwell platform in CPU-intensive tasks...
Yeah, well, I'll be impressed when it goes to 11.
For some reason I get very nervous with an out of band remote proprietary management system baked into recent Intel chips, which operates below the OS, and has not been independently audited and reviewed by trusted 3rd parties (such as those not associated with mass surveillance).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
Note that AMT is also in all Intel chips with vPro:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
This posting from the FSF (Free Software Foundation) has a decent writeup about it:
https://fsf.org/blogs/communit. [fsf.org]