Subj : Re: 386 OS/2 Woes...
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Tracker1
Date : Mon May 08 2023 00:45:53

 Tr>> Current i3 will run circles around an i7 from a couple generations
 Tr>> back.  Similar for current and last gen N-series.  It's doubtful the
 Tr>> bottleneck would be the POS even with like an N6005 or similar.

 PF> I'm an i7 snob, been shopping for new systems semi-seriously. I should
 PF> compare benchmarks on my old i7 and a new i3 to get a reality check.

 PF> Doing a random check of a i7-4790 versus an i3-9100, it looks like the
 PF> i3 edges out the i7 in everything except octa-core speeds. The -4790 has
 PF> 8 threads.

Surprised me as well when I'd first heard it... like for current generation, most will get by with the i5-13600k even depending on what you're doing.  It's definitely peppy.  But as with everything else these days, depends on what you're doing.

Personally been AMD since the Zen+ came out, my SO is on an R5-2600, and I came in a generation later with the R9-3950X, which I passed to my daughter a year later when the 5950X came out.  I'm sitting out this generation as I'm hoping DDR5 support gets better, but now that AMD is going big/little as well, only hoping the schedular for Linux gets more tuning, not that I push things that often.  I generally just need a fair amount of threads for background services/databases via docker.
  
   
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