8th-Gen Intel Core I7 CPUs Are Quite a Bit Faster

Wow! That "ARTICLE" is 80% ad by scrollbar length. How did we ever get here on the web? :(

People seem to dislike both ads and paywalls. I'm curious if sites will find another way to monetize eventually.

I can live with ads, but iff they make up < 50% of the page by area...

Apparently they have to do this to keep up with the faster processors. If they don't then sales go down and every one gets hurt!

;)

Overall the article is confirming that Intel keeps giving out minor cpu gains of 10-15% on single core, which is hardly even noticeable.

It's only when apps and games start to truly use multi core that users will notice higher performance.

Yup.

Pretty sure an i7-8700 is only about 40-50% faster than my nearly 6 year old i7-3770.

I keep thinking "My system is 6 years old...it's time to upgrade" but I just can't justify it. I'm still running DDR3 (Granted, 32 GB of it), so I'd need to do the CPU/mobo/RAM trifecta.

At which point do you start wondering what corners Intel cut this time?

I'm sure they're just as bad as every other Intel chip has ever been.