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Apple M2 smashes its way to i9-12900 levels in astonishing PassMark single-thread performance but barely matches an i3-12300 in average CPU Mark - NotebookCheck.net News
With single core CPU performance barely improving in the last decade, why aren't even wider superscalar (10+ issue) designs being considered? Is it because of the inherent nature of code streams? -
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