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There is no "Moore's law for performance". Moore's law is a statement about the number of transistors on a chip, nothing more (Moore?). And sure enough, the Thr
by dTal 6y ago
There is no "Moore's law for performance". Moore's law is a statement about the number of transistors on a chip, nothing more (Moore?). And sure enough, the Threadripper machine I built this year has about double the number of transistors as the Threadripper machine I built last year, which has about double the number of transistors to the one before that... (although this is partly a function of increasing budget; Moore's law specifies a two year doubling).
But sure, if you want to talk performance - the fastest CPU this year, the Threadripper 3990X, is over 100x faster than the fastest CPU of 2005, the Athlon 64 FX-57. That's about 7-8 doublings, or pretty much spot on.
- mcguire 6y agoFaster how, exactly? The clock rate is ~4/3. It has 128 half-cores, but the benefits will depend on the workload. :-)
- konjin 6y agoFor a very long time between 1970 and 2005 doubling the transistors halved the time taken for any task. We're well past this point. If you don't think so try and calculate a_{i+1} = rand_int() a_i mod 232 on a machine from today and one from 2005. Then do the same with a machine from 2005 and 1990.