How fast would an Original Pentium be if made in 22nm?

[SHAQ]

I see. But GPU's actually get much faster with each generation and with a CPU 10% faster is considered great (small IPC improvements and clock speed bumps). Higher capacity memory also serves a purpose. A 6 core CPU hasn't shown any benefit whatsoever to even a gamer rig, only professional work, servers and folding perhaps. So in a few years at this rate chips will have 50% wasted space to many consumers. If AMD gets in more trouble I imagine Intel can force people to buy more cores they don't need by phasing out the older parts. There's always the bright side if you are on the board or a shareholder. lol

 

[Tuna-Fish]

I see. But GPU's actually get much faster with each generation and with a CPU 10% faster is considered great (small IPC improvements and clock speed bumps).

Note that GPUs are generally *not* much faster to complete a single thread with each passing generation. It's just that the problem set for GPUs does easily split into more independent threads, unlike for CPUs. So adding more cores to a GPU will always help.

 

[LiuKangBakinPie]

Better question would be if a Pentium 4 @ 22nm would make it to 10ghz?

No it made 8Ghz cause it run so hot. Cooler means it wont do so good on LN2 normally.

 

[beginner99]

Skyrim engine was like that due to neglegence (as you can see it's a heavily modified Oblivion engine), Starcraft 2's by design, in my opinion, to favor Intel CPUs. What RTS wouldn't lend itself to scaling indefinitely with cores? Just dish off the computations for all the new units to the new threads, no big deal...

Development of Starcraft 2 took forever and likely when the design was made they either didn't think 4-core CPUs will be so common in the future or IMHO more probably blizzard always designed games as such they would be playable on lower hardware and hence it should work well with 2 core designs and then it's probably just easier to optimize for 2 cores.