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Re:Apple and Intel first to use TSMC 3nm by speeder on Saturday July 03, 2021 @11:40AM (#27722347)
Need to point out in particular that that best Haswell i5 was FASTER than the best i7 for single-core workloads, so this might be a factor in OP post.

And also that is the reason why I use such processor on my own computer, it was already "outdated" when I bought it, but since one of the things I like to do is play some simulation style games that rely heavily on single-core performance, I choose the fastest single-core CPU I could find without bankrupting myself. (the i5 4690k that with some squeezing can even be pushed past 4ghz, it is a beastly CPU this one)

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Re:Apple and Intel first to use TSMC 3nm by Causality1 on Saturday July 03, 2021 @01:15PM (#27723138)
Exactly. The only thing I used my system for that was really begging for more CPU was console emulation, and that depends more on single core performance than anything else.
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