Hi,

To all the new TR5 owners who previously owned TR3s is the speed bump from 1.0 ghz to 1.1 ghz very detectable?  Does the TR5 feel much faster?

Thanks

In most cases, you won’t notice the difference. A 10% increase in clock speed (even with the slightly larger L2 cache) will probably translate to 3-5% overall system performance. In pure CPU bound situations, it should be 10% faster but even then that’s doubtful considering system overhead.

Thanks groOvy!

I would say it’s comparable to the 100 MHz bump between the TR1 and the TR2, which I’ve experienced. It’s noticeable in some things like mp3 encoding or Photoshop filters, but only barely. You only save a few seconds here and there at best. Going from 1.0GHz on my TR to 1.7GHz on my S was a huge step up, but from the TR3 to the TR5 will only be a marginal improvement.