Alder Lake performance results:
Talking about the future then I would say the following: It seems that the improvements in DAW performance in Alder Lake mostly comes from using DDR5 memory. Now take into account a possible 15% performance increase as AMD moves to 3D-cache, and then likely another 15% increase as they move to 5nm for the next new CPU architecture, and then add the same improvement in performance as Intel got from moving to DDR 5 for AMD’s AM5 socket and you have - compared to today’s existing Ryzen CPUs:
5xxx - 100%
5xxx 3D cache - 115
6xxx AM5 - 132
6xxx AM5 w DDR5 - 198
In other words possibly twice the performance of today around the fourth quarter next year. Pretty remarkable if it turns out that way, and that would indeed be my prediction. So we can take the numbers for the 5950X in the charts in the link and pretty much double them and that’s where we’ll be in less than a year.
In terms of power efficiency… that’s why that’s a thing.