[adgjlsfhk1]

the equivalent chip 6 years ago was the 3950x which is the same number of cores clocked ~20% slower. if you add on ~30% ipc (for avx-512 and some general cleanups), you get a 60% speedup in 6 years which is way below the ~10x speedup between the similarly spaced Pentium 4 and Sandy bridge

[cma]

Its closer to 2X faster on Chromium compile benchmark, at least the 9950X3D, and even bigger benefits for X3D in other use cases than code compiling, 9950X3D is only a few percent better than 9950X for that.

[wegfawefgawefg]

how about power consumption, cache size, etc?

what i know is that in my particle simulations and multithreaded compilation tasks it is easily 2-10x faster. where before i could choke on 1 million particles, now im choking on 30mill.

i specifically bought this processor for its rust compilation times.

[noosphr]

>what i know is that in my particle simulations and multithreaded compilation tasks it is easily 2-10x faster.

If Moore's law still worked like it did between 1975 and 2005 you'd be getting a 16x performance boost in _single_ threaded applications.

[genewitch]

The fastest single threaded, non overclocked, commercially available cpu was the Intel i3 7350k.

I haven't seen anything bench faster than a system set up for that machine on a business board.

I think now with advancements such as AVX (the newer versions that chips like atoms don't have) the 7350k can be viewed as a power hungry pig.

I'm not sure though. The systems I purpose built using those CPUs still work great, no real significant performance issues even with current software and web. And they can use a single battery UPS.

I still have a 16 core 5950x, that is 10% faster than the 40 core xeon box it replaced, at 1/4 the wattage at the wall as my main machine.