Intel/AMD old king VS new recruit

With the development of hardware technology, hardware replacement rate is accelerating.With the emergence of new generation of products, a lot of flagship product become normal products.When internal structure of processor changed, the performance of new generation processor will be substantially better than previous generation.

So a lot of friends will have this question: Since the new generation processor performance will increase significantly over the previous generation, Will todays entry-level processor performance beyond flagship processors of previous generation products?