Core i5 760 vs. Core i7 3770

[lambchops511]

FYI. I just upgraded from an i5 760 to a i7 3770 and my compile times have literally dropped by 1/2 w. gcc 4.6 . To any developers out there, consider the upgrade! If you can save 5 mins each day, the time value $$ really adds up!

Only wish I got the 3770K instead, didn't realize the K had a 0.1 MHz advantage (thought it was just for overclocking purposes).

EOM.

 

[T_Yamamoto]

FYI. I just upgraded from an i5 760 to a i7 3770 and my compile times have literally dropped by 1/2 w. gcc 4.6 . To any developers out there, consider the upgrade! If you can save 5 mins each day, the time value $$ really adds up!

Only wish I got the 3770K instead, didn't realize the K had a 0.1 MHz advantage (thought it was just for overclocking purposes).

EOM.

Well you did go from a first gen to third gen so of course. And the K series is for ocing that .1 mhz doesn't matter

 

[postmortemIA]

0.1GHz not MHz
BTW I hope you are using -j8 flag, I bet you are..

 

[Roland00Address]

Of course you will see big improvements with cpu bound tasks. The intel i5 760s are roughly equivalent to the amd phenom ii x4 975/980 (depending on task the amd are 90 to 100% of the i5 760s) and everybody harps on how horrible those cpus are for singlethreaded task

 

[Saylick]

Of course you will see big improvements with cpu bound tasks. The intel i5 760s are roughly equivalent to the amd phenom ii x4 975/980 (depending on task the amd are 90 to 100% of the i5 760s) and everybody harps on how horrible those cpus are for singlethreaded task

The funny thing is that it takes a 3.6+ GHz Phenom II to match a 2.8 GHz Nehalem chip.

On another thought, I wonder how much of an improvement Haswell would have over the 760 in real world applications. I am currently sitting on a mildly OC'd 750 (which works perfectly fine) but I would like to upgrade to the Haswell successor for the 3770K. Gotta scratch that upgrade itch, ya know?

 

[Roland00Address]

The funny thing is that it takes a 3.6+ GHz Phenom II to match a 2.8 GHz Nehalem chip.

My point exactly. The original poster does not overclock, so it is best to compare stock cpu vs stock cpu and the 3.6 ghz phenom ii chip is about the same speed as a 1st generation 2.8 ghz i5 quad core.

If you do not overclock you do not care about clock speeds of a cpu, to you is a mystery black box where you input data and after some time your desired result comes out. You don't care on how it got there just how quickly it performed.