On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 7:33 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 25/07/12 23:05, Philip Webb wrote: >> >> Isn't 22 nm going to be faster than 32 nm ? >> [...] >> >> How do you compare cores vs nm ? >> How far is cache size important ( 6 vs 8 MB )? > > > You simply ignore all that stuff and look at how fast the CPUs are. Some > 45nm CPUs are faster than some 32nm and 22nm ones. How small the > manufacturing process is does not say much about performance. At least not > directly. > > IMO, the best recommendations come from Tom's Hardware. They update their > recommendation every month or two: > > http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-cpu-review-overclock,3106.html > > Ignore the "Gaming" in the title. It's really a recommendation of > performance vs price. The only effect their focus on gaming has is that > they ignore the integrated graphics of Intel CPUs. > >
Yes, and remember tomshardware doesn't test Gentoo Linux. Look at a site like openbenchmarking.org. http://openbenchmarking.org/s/AMD%20FX%20-8150%20Eight-Core http://openbenchmarking.org/s/Intel%20Core%20i5-3570K Gentoo results are the most relevant, remember. The bulldozer kind of sucks outside of Linux, and even Gentoo, and other benchmarks wont show the results you would get. Highly threaded things kick ass on the bulldozer, so I imagine updating with it would be fastest.
