This thread has been brought to my attention by someone here.
Based on the benchmarking data the athlon 220 @ 3.4GHz will be about 15% faster than the i3 2310m on average. Simply take the times of comparable cpus on the table, stick it in the denominator of a fraction under 1, and multiply it by the inverse ratio of the clock rates. Then compare the resulting two numbers.
While it's true that sandy bridge isn't much faster than nehalem in dolphin both sandy bridge and nehalem are A LOT faster than wolfdale or regor clock for clock. More than it other apps. Which helps account for the difference. In fact despite nehalem being about the same IPC as sandy bridge in dolphin the difference in IPC between sandy bridge and wolfdale is about the same as in other apps. This is because the IPC difference between nelahem and wolfdale is about twice as high as in most other apps which completely makes up for the lack of difference between nehalem and sandy bridge. This pattern was repeated again with ivy bridge/haswell. It seems that dolphin only benefits from architectural improvements to the frontend of the pipeline. But benefits so much from them that it easily makes up for the lack of improvement in previous generations when present.
Edit: And now it's resolved without my help, figures.
Edit 2: Note to future self. Stop responding to PMs.
Based on the benchmarking data the athlon 220 @ 3.4GHz will be about 15% faster than the i3 2310m on average. Simply take the times of comparable cpus on the table, stick it in the denominator of a fraction under 1, and multiply it by the inverse ratio of the clock rates. Then compare the resulting two numbers.
While it's true that sandy bridge isn't much faster than nehalem in dolphin both sandy bridge and nehalem are A LOT faster than wolfdale or regor clock for clock. More than it other apps. Which helps account for the difference. In fact despite nehalem being about the same IPC as sandy bridge in dolphin the difference in IPC between sandy bridge and wolfdale is about the same as in other apps. This is because the IPC difference between nelahem and wolfdale is about twice as high as in most other apps which completely makes up for the lack of difference between nehalem and sandy bridge. This pattern was repeated again with ivy bridge/haswell. It seems that dolphin only benefits from architectural improvements to the frontend of the pipeline. But benefits so much from them that it easily makes up for the lack of improvement in previous generations when present.
Edit: And now it's resolved without my help, figures.
Edit 2: Note to future self. Stop responding to PMs.
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-Ron Swanson
"I shall be a good politician, even if it kills me. Or if it kills anyone else for that matter. "
-Mark Antony