At the end of last year, Intel launched the 12th generation Core processors, which not only upgraded the Golden Cove core and performance + efficiency core heterogeneous architecture but also upgraded the process technology to Intel 7, the previous 10nm ESF enhanced process, ending the dominance of the 14nm process for more than 5 years.
If you count Skylake from 2015, Intel has launched a total of 5 generations of 14nm Core processors in the past few years, which is the longest-lived process in Intel’s history, but for gamers, the latter years have been using 14nm to make people dissatisfied, after all, the friendly Rex II and III have entered the 7nm node.
BullsLab really did a test, they compared five processors including Core i7-6700K to Core i9-11900K, set to 4C4T, frequency fixed at 4.5GHz, and compared the IPC performance of 5 generations of CPUs. IPC performance of the generation CPU.
The results are relatively simple, so I won’t repeat them one by one. To sum up, the IPC performance of 5 generations of Core with the same 14nm process is not much different, and the most improvement of each generation is about 10-12%, which mainly happens in the 8th generation Core, and the 10th generation Core is also more obvious.
If we compare the initial 6th generation Core, then the IPC has improved by about 20-25% over the past few years, I wonder if we are satisfied with this improvement?
