Relative power of different CPU's
Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2016 5:54 pm
Hello- -not too many on this forum at the moment
This is a query for people more in the know of computer power regarding CPU's.
I found myself looking on the Intel vs AMD high end website quite a lot to determine which the better CPU's are and which ones I'd like or not like as long as they're not too expensive.
It's a bench marking website and I don't really understand anything about bench marking other than the higher scores are better most of the time unless there is a bench mark where the lowest score is the best.
Back to the high end stuff - If I look at a CPU such as i7 3770k on this website it's gets a score of around 9500 points, another CPU i7 4790k gets around 11,000 points and another i7 3930k gets 12,000 - These are approximate.
By contrast some CPU's I've had for many years now such as Quad Core Q9450 Q9550 have around 4000 points or slightly less.
The query is, is this the best way to ascertain which a good CPU is as I don't know anything about benchmarks?
Throughout the forums all the music-techies will harp on about the same CPU's I've mentioned depending what year it is as they're usually the best CPU's for an amount of money that is not ridiculous
Some of these E5 Xeons are crazy prices - But one Xeon that took my fancy is the E5-2620 V4 with 16,000+ points on Intel vs AMD and is around the £420 here in UK which is still very prices but not £2,700+ for a damn CPU!!!
This is a query for people more in the know of computer power regarding CPU's.
I found myself looking on the Intel vs AMD high end website quite a lot to determine which the better CPU's are and which ones I'd like or not like as long as they're not too expensive.
It's a bench marking website and I don't really understand anything about bench marking other than the higher scores are better most of the time unless there is a bench mark where the lowest score is the best.
Back to the high end stuff - If I look at a CPU such as i7 3770k on this website it's gets a score of around 9500 points, another CPU i7 4790k gets around 11,000 points and another i7 3930k gets 12,000 - These are approximate.
By contrast some CPU's I've had for many years now such as Quad Core Q9450 Q9550 have around 4000 points or slightly less.
The query is, is this the best way to ascertain which a good CPU is as I don't know anything about benchmarks?
Throughout the forums all the music-techies will harp on about the same CPU's I've mentioned depending what year it is as they're usually the best CPU's for an amount of money that is not ridiculous
Some of these E5 Xeons are crazy prices - But one Xeon that took my fancy is the E5-2620 V4 with 16,000+ points on Intel vs AMD and is around the £420 here in UK which is still very prices but not £2,700+ for a damn CPU!!!