How is it possible that a 6th gen i7 performs significantly better

>>58808121
Why is it that a 3.6 Liter V6 in the CT6 produces 330HP and gets 21 Combined, and the 2004 CTS with a 3.6 Liter V6 gets 19 combined, all the while the CT6 being larger and more powerful. The reason being is optimizations. You can always perfect something.

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>>58808689
>V6

>>58809110
>Being a fag

>>58808121
IPC
Cache

Higher clock speed, cache, and IPC

More accurate branch prediction,
Bigger reorder queues,
Faster cache,
More arithmetic and load store units,
Wider FPU.

>>58809187
>>58809267
>clock speed and cache size haven't changed

How does IPC explain a nearly 100% improvement? I think Intel is rationing optimizations so that they can pretend that their CPUs are getting better every year.

The only concrete change is in voltage. 6th gen 15W = 1st gen 45W, but that's because of die shrinkage and die shrinkage doesn't inherently improve speeds.

>>58809283
not to mention the fact that better motherboards with the addition of better hardware to go alongside the cpu are also catered into the final score

>>58809110
>Americans