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by hendersoon 3429 days ago
That's absolutely true on mobile platforms, which have made major advances in both performance and architecture over the past couple of years.

It isn't true on PC hardware, where a modern kaby lake i5 performs similarly on desktop tasks to a a 5 year old ivy bridge i5. PC hardware has advanced tremendously in power efficiency, but much less so in performance.