Discussion Core i7-990X VS Core i3-1215U

[jnjnilson6]

The great and legendary Core i7-990X, the CPU which had captivated the CPU world upon its release over a decade ago, stirring within our memory, effortlessly subdued to the vision of stark superiority and thunderous boisterousness, now sits within the shaded drawer of the past and makes us feel tempted and remember...

https://www.cpuagent.com/graph/benchmarks/intel-core-i7-990x/cinebench-r15-multi-threaded

And here we are, in 2023, wherein laptops for 350 euro, harboring a CPU of the stance of the i3-1215U, would yield synonymous results to those of the forgotten flagship of the CPU world, the immemorial Core i7-990X.

Tell me what you think! You may disperse opalescently upon the theme and upon the immortal components of the past, which, diamondlike and beautiful, distil those tireless and suspenseful ventures of begone hardware times indefinitely in the memory, ascribing an outline, both vague and captivating, in their generation, and yet, for those few immersed deeply into a particular period, a golden standpoint to return to; the breathless consummation of staggering numerals and days and aspects dragging unceasingly by, beholding faded beliefs and opinions now gone forever, lending out the fever of faint disappearing things and redolent remembrances through the vigilant mind as a dream.

 

[boju]

i7 920 was my first self built system, serving my own purpose and chasing 1.5GHz oc above base was fun. These days that kind of oc is pretty much over. That's the kind of experience ill take from that era.

Most memorable PC moment for me is finally abling to play the first Need for Speed and Duke3D properly on the 686 333MHz which was a huge improvement over the 486 66MHz.

 

[Eximo]

Passmark gives a larger victory to the i3.

Intel Core i7-990X @ 3.47GHz vs Intel Core i3-1210U [cpubenchmark.net] by PassMark Software

Still, at 10% the power, pretty decent.

 

[hotaru.hino]

I like to this comparison more: in 1996, we had the first supercomputer capable of doing over 1 TFLOP and it cost $46 million then. Around 12 years later and the same compute power on a single chip could be had in a video card for $300.