what in the world, no solid CPU gains lately? Upgrades?

[Enigmoid]

So Fritz wasnt relevant because too old, and now that s 7 Zip that is not that good after all.

I guess that whatever bench doesnt produce the results that you re imagining as being the good ones cant be a real, a true, a reliable bench...

An integer version of 3D Particle Movement would suit perhaps.?.

I'm not saying its not relevant simply that it only shows one aspect of integer performance. Any single benchmark is insufficient. Doesn't matter what it is.

7-zip is good. Its good at testing memory latency (which is why its RAM sensitive) and operation latency. It is not a good benchmark of throughput or general integer performance.

As far as a better benchmark goes, I have already said that x264/265 is better. Obviously it is not the 'one benchmark to rule them all' but its better.

3D-PM is meh. Looks like it has a number of problems.

There s no such thing as FLOPS in a task using integer code only, for this reason in 7 ZIP the metric is in MIPS.

Whoops mistyped.

 

[StrangerGuy]

I won't be remotely surprised if an OCed quadcore 14nm can't even break 4GHz. In fact this is why I think Intel is so quiet regarding the clocks of desktop Broadwell; because it will be first time that overall performance regressed at stock clocks despite IPC gains.

I wonder what sort of marketing will Asus, MSI etc is going to use for their $$$ mobos by then as if Haswell OCing wasn't pointless enough yet.

 

[nyker96]

I think in ur case, ur system can run most games reasonablly, so I'd just do a 8gb ram upgrade about it, but if you don't got a SSD upgrade yet, that's even a bigger upgrade, makes things fly. other than that, going intel etc. don't really make too much difference on a whole unless you starting over, in which case, I'd probably get intel since less cpu bottleneck. however, nowadays, like you said, it's very hard to find reason to upgrade a desktop, if i got extra cash, i'd buy a better phone, tablet, touch pad etc. etc. where all the new tech are at right now.