Intel’s new lineup of CPUs extremely disappointing

Lately, CPU’s made by intel have been ever more disappointing. Intel has focussed on power rather than performance since it’s broadwell architecture. As a performance user, this means that I have to make some decisions I don’t like. The question boils down to the question: “Do I pick processing power over features, or do I need the features instead?”

Intel’s latests lineup, Skylake, is even more of a disappointment than Haswell-E was. The top base clock frequency has actually gone down and performance per clock isn’t terribly impressive if I look at the reviews.

The same is true for many core CPU’s as well. The TDP is king. IF you want a CPU with more cores, you automatically have to accept a lower max CPU base frequency. There really isn’t a need for this. We had CPU’s with higher TDPs in the past, so there’s no limit for current gen CPU’s if TDP is the problem.

Please Intel, make us something nice and speedy again! (preferably something with a 4.5+GHz base frequency and 6 or 8 cores with ECC support and an unlocked multiplier)

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