To see how much better instruction pipelining works, you can look at a few important points:

1. Throughput: This is how fast instructions get done. In a pipelined system, ideally, one instruction finishes every cycle once the pipeline is filled up. If the pipeline has $n$ stages, you can expect the speed to be about $n$ times faster.

2. Latency vs. Cycle Count: You can check the total time it takes to run tasks without pipelining versus with pipelining. While pipelining helps make individual instructions faster, it might cause some problems that affect overall speed.

3. Speedup Formula: You can find out how much faster the pipelined system is using this formula: $S = \frac{T_{non-pipeline}}{T_{pipeline}}$. Here, $T$ stands for the total time it takes to complete the tasks.

By looking at these points, you can understand how pipelining helps improve performance.