@unknownuser said:
And also, I recall reading some time ago that "todays" cpu clock speed is in no way the same as the old way of measuring.
IOW todays 2.7~3.0ghz is many time(s) faster than single core cpu 2.7~3.0ghz of years ago. (IDK.....is this correct?)
Unfortunately my technical knowledge doesn't quite extend to the intricacies of CPU architecture, but the answer is both yes and no.
Yes: considering a single core vs single core and clock for clock today's CPU's get more done those of yesteryear, mainly due to optimizations and additional instruction sets. Add to that the effect of multiple cores, and you have your answer quite clear, but some software isn't optimized to utilize multiple cores, they then merely help take care of other things in the background. Setting software and core affinity can help single core applications.
No: unless the software can actually benefit from the optimizations and additional instruction sets, you're pretty much in the same spot you were years ago, apart from power efficiency and heat dissipation. Some improvements will be hard to spot in the real world and many of them only really stand out in benchmarks designed to measure these things.
