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PassMark sees the first yearly drop in average CPU performance in its 20 years of benchmark results (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

How can this even be possible? A drop in CPU performance on average?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

It’s not really the decrease that’s the news here because that decrease is within a margin of error due to other factors. What’s the real news is that the graph has been flat for two consecutive years which is mind boggling!*

  • I rarely use exclamation marks, sorry about that.
[–] [email protected] 14 points 15 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I’ve been caught, abort mission!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

You are using an exclamation mark 4 hours ago: https://sopuli.xyz/comment/14613004

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago

I don't see any exclamation marks here, just the Metal Gear alert sound.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Anyhow, you're right something is not going great. Although I upgraded to a great Threadripper platform now and we do have great AMD laptop processors. It could have multiple causes:

  • Doing below 4nm, 3nm, and 2 nm will give more and more issues, we are basically hitting a wall. Since quantum effects are increasingly becoming an issue at these small scales. Especially with high NA.
  • Monopoly of AMD in the CPU market, Intel is lacking behind. On the long term this could mean less innovation.
  • Inflation; due to costs rising, people are less willing to invest that much money on their (new) computers and hardware. Since the article refers to "average results of all Windows PC tests across the globe every two weeks". It could be as simple as people having less purging power to all buy new chips. And most people are just "fine" with using 5, 10 or even 15 year old hardware as their daily driver.

Disclaimer: I'm working in the Lithography sector at ASML.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Inflation; due to costs rising, people are less willing to invest that much money on their (new) computers and hardware. Since the article refers to "average results of all Windows PC tests across the globe every two weeks". It could be as simple as people having less purging power to all buy new chips. And most people are just "fine" with using 5, 10 or even 15 year old hardware as their daily driver.

I refuse to buy hardware until my current shit breaks from usage.... These parasites done fucked around. I am done playing these stupid games. My shit can last through 2030 easily.

I used to be a hardware whore... but no more.

Denying these parasites profit as much as I can in every market in participate in!

Always start your search with used ;)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago

I actually just recently upgraded to new hardware, but you're right I myself (as a programmer) was actually using not long ago 15 year old PC. Well the motherboard, case and PSU was 15 years old. I upgraded the GPU along the way, twice in total. And I added more ram. And 2 years ago I upgraded to the CPU for 10 euros/dollars using some used server Xeon processor that was compatible with my PLGA1366 socket.

So actually depending on your needs and small upgrades, you can use old hardware for years. And yes I was still playing games on this 15 year old desktop PC. I just recently upgraded like I said, because mainly I was limited to only SATA 2 and USB 2.0 connectors, so .. that. And yes my CPU became the bottleneck for my GPU as well. And I was not able to use NVMe drives of course or anything modern to that regard.

EDIT: And my fuses always tripped when I switched on the old computer. Awh well, after 15 years it was time to upgrade.