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Well, a top-end PC from 5+ years ago can still easily outperform a lower end PC made today. This is true even if you don't have an SSD in either. A "top end" i
by larrik 9y ago
Well, a top-end PC from 5+ years ago can still easily outperform a lower end PC made today. This is true even if you don't have an SSD in either.
A "top end" iPad will lose in performance to the "bottom end" of the very next generation of iPads. Granted, that isn't the same thing, but the point stands.
- sundvor 9y agoYeah I was going to mention my 2560k, which has been running at 4.3ghz for the longest time now. 7 years? Something like that. With 16gb of memory, a Samsung 850 Pro and a NVIDIA 980, this PC which is now my spare / 7 year old son's is still going very strong indeed.
- GeekyBear 9y agoHow long has it been since we saw large performance increases year after year in the PC space? >Intel's Kaby Lake Core i7-7700K is what happens when a chip company stops trying. The top-end Kaby Lake part is the first desktop chip in a brave new post-"tick-tock" world—which means that instead of major improvements to architecture, process, and instructions per clock (IPC), we get slightly higher clock speeds and a way to decode DRM-laden 4K streaming video. Huzzah. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/01/intel-core-i7-7700k-kaby-lake-review/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/01/intel-core-i7-7700k-...