CPU Boss takes a plunge

We were closely monitoring CPU Boss - a site dedicated to comparing two processors side by side. The way it did was create a database of the processors and, when, someone searched for two processors, it looked at the data of the two processors and listed them side by side.

Well, this thing works in some scenario where the two processors are of the same line. For example when both the processors belong to the Haswell line of processors. In such case, if you compare the clock frequency of the two processors, it makes sense to compare the  frequencies.

However,if you  look at these shoddy websites, things fall apart. They often compare the clock frequencies, number of clocks and other parameters of two processors of heterogeneous families - like one is from Intel and another is from AMD.

Listing just the data is not going to work. The processors today are more complex in the sense that they also encompass the Graphics Units built into it. And it is really hard to compare the GPUs ( Graphics processing Units), just based upon the underlying data.

What we need is some explanation on the individual comparison of the processors. This is where we come into picture. We compare two processors, not only based upon the underlying data but also upon the underlying architecture. The data is still used, but not as the only source of information. It is complemented by individual explanation of the data and we derive the results and explanation.

Sometimes ago, findthebest.com also tried the same thing and failed miserably. There are few sites that do the job a bit better - notebookcheck.com and anandtech.com do a better job and creating a database of the CPUs. Both of them back up with a lot of time they spend in actually reviewing the CPUs.
  

Core i3-4100U - the Haswell Mainstream processor

Core i3-4100U is a mainstream ULV processor in the Intel's Haswell line up launched in 2013. The term mainstream is differentiated from the performance segment priced significantly higher and therefore, out of the reach of "maintream" customers. The term ULV, if you are un initiated ( we do respect the highly knowledgeable readers), stands for Ultra Low Voltage, which essentially means that the processor works on a comparatively low core voltage, and, therefore, consumes much lower power, making them suitable for thin notebooks with higher battery life.

Haswell is a successor to the Intel's Ivy Bridge platform. But the performance improvement especially in the CPU is not as dramatic as has been in the earlier launches of architecture. The optimization in the branch prediction and others has improved the CPU performance by about 10% for the same clock frequency. The Haswell not supports AVX2 and FMA instructions.

Introducing Best Processors at Blogspot

We had earlier started a processor comparison site called compare-processors.com. It was doing very well. I compared processors with every possible way and tried our best to write about the processors.

However, google somehow did not like the website. Its number pageviews plummetted from over 5k a day to just over 700 a day. We stopped writing for processors.

After a gap of about one year we have restarted this website on google's own blogging platform - blogspot. We are not sure, it this is something google will like. We will try to do our best to give relevant information to the users and keep our fingers crossed and see.

We have found that a lot of people search for popular and low and processors. In laptop segments the Celerons and Core i3 could be more popular than their core i5 and i7 siblings. This is one reason, you will see lots of details about the low end processors comparisons.

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