Gains from Bloomfield to Haswell

Idontcare

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Depends on the application of course, the instruction mix and so forth.

I suspect your range is probably right though, as a good rule of thumb would go. There will be corner cases in both directions, apps that provide 2-3x IPC increases when using AVX2, and apps that show essentially no IPC improvement when using x87 or some such.
 

Makaveli

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Well

Bloomfield to Sandy was 10-15%

Then Sandy to Ivy is in the 5-10% range

I've heard Haswell should add another 10% (speculation of course)

So for IPC alone 25-40% sounds right and with more clock speed headroom for overclocking... maybe add another 10% for overall performance.

Depends on the application of course, the instruction mix and so forth.

I suspect your range is probably right though, as a good rule of thumb would go. There will be corner cases in both directions, apps that provide 2-3x IPC increases when using AVX2, and apps that show essentially no IPC improvement when using x87 or some such.


Ah forgot about AVX2 that should bring even greater gains in programs that support it.
 
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pauldun170

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I'm using Haswell right now.
You can expect a 30% increase across the board going from a top of the line Nehalem to low end (i3) Haswell.

Oh wait a minute.
this isn't Haswell.
It's a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
Sorry about that.
 

Idontcare

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I'm using Haswell right now.
You can expect a 30% increase across the board going from a top of the line Nehalem to low end (i3) Haswell.

Oh wait a minute.
this isn't Haswell.
It's a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
Sorry about that.

You wouldn't happen to be an x264 developer, would you?







:D
 

Haserath

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You wouldn't happen to be an x264 developer, would you?
:D
I bet he received it in a little plastic baggie and nothing else too.:whiste:
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Haswell has AVX/AVX2/FMA support, higher clocks by 10-20%, IPC should be at least 20% better/more like 30%+, and it'll be lower power.

I'd say it's a worthy enough upgrade.
 

LOL_Wut_Axel

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Well

Bloomfield to Sandy was 10-15%

Then Sandy to Ivy is in the 5-10% range

I've heard Haswell should add another 10% (speculation of course)

So for IPC alone 25-40% sounds right and with more clock speed headroom for overclocking... maybe add another 10% for overall performance.




Ah forgot about AVX2 that should bring even greater gains in programs that support it.

Sandy to Ivy was in the 2-5% range...