Intel Core i3 2100 Sandy Bridge vs. Core i3 7100 Kabylake Performance

[davidbepo]

i do this

glxinfo | grep "OpenGL version"
OpenGL version string: 3.0 Mesa 13.0.4

thats the compat profile
if you just grep opengl
it will also show you the core version

[sarfarazahmad]

eagerly waiting for ryzen cpus ! for Michael's benchmarks and my laptop purchase.

[smartalgorithm]

Your hardware should be able to do GL 3.3. Are you looking at the GL compatibility profile string or so?

i do this

glxinfo | grep "OpenGL version"
OpenGL version string: 3.0 Mesa 13.0.4

[Michael]

it is interesting that my i3 2350M with Mesa 13.0.4 has openGL version 3.0 and not 3.3 as was here (mesa versions is the same)...
the graphic side comparison shows clear benefits of having a new hardware with beautiful power savings. I will have a nice upgrade then as i see

Your hardware should be able to do GL 3.3. Are you looking at the GL compatibility profile string or so?

[smartalgorithm]

it is interesting that my i3 2350M with Mesa 13.0.4 has openGL version 3.0 and not 3.3 as was here (mesa versions is the same)...
the graphic side comparison shows clear benefits of having a new hardware with beautiful power savings. I will have a nice upgrade then as i see

[speculatrix]

I find this interesting and useful. I'm going to be building a TV Headend server sometime soon and since it will be an always-on box, I want it to be able to idle efficiently, but be able to transcode video at a decent speed. It seems that the newer generations of Intel CPU would really help here.

[Ray54]

I have an I3 2120 and agree with norsetto's earlier comment that more cores is the preferred upgrade path. For many people, I suspect the graphics improvement with the 7100 is almost meaningless for people who are into graphics, as they will be using a good graphics card. I will hold out to see what a low-end AMD Ryzen processor looks like, if that is not a good option, then I may look at prices for used quad-core Sandy Bridge processors. The 7100 with the price of a new motherboard and new memory does not look like a big enough jump for the overall cost.

[ResponseWriter]

Thanks, Michael! Would be good to see some comparisons with AMD's offerings at similar price points, especially with Ryzen once it's available (obviously not expecting you can do that test for another month from now ).

[GrayShade]

Unfortunately I have no direct matches there, closest would be 4770k vs. 7770K but I think I did that in a test already. but don't have any other matching high end from like Sandy to Kaby

You're right. If anyone else is interested, the Google search on Phoronix doesn't find it but it's here: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...0k-linux&num=1 .

[Michael]

and Turbo has also improved a lot.

These i3 models don't use turbo.