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Last decade I'm not so sure. I bought the very first readily available consumer quad core CPU a decade ago (the Q6600), two years ago I upgraded and I had to pa
by tjoff 9y ago
Last decade I'm not so sure. I bought the very first readily available consumer quad core CPU a decade ago (the Q6600), two years ago I upgraded and I had to pay a huge premium because I wanted more than four (I got six!) cores. And that is just starting to change today.
Not that core count is everything but consumer desktop CPUs have stagnated quite a bit. Here's to hoping AMD stirs it up a bit.
- cm2187 9y agoBecause the compute power for consumer CPU nowadays is good enough, the effort has been in reducing energy consumption. But if you look at the server / workstation side, you can get 20+ cores in a single dice.
- tjoff 9y agoGood enough relative to the competition perhaps. Nowadays the CPU is the bottle-neck even when surfing the web and using simple (electron) text editors.
- imtringued 9y agoIf you consider core count desktop CPUs have had massive increases in performance in the last year and will get another massive increase when 7nm arrives.
- tjoff 9y agoThis seems to only reinforce my point?