If you bought a Core I7-990x in 2011 you got 6 cores at 3.47ghz. l3 cache of 12mb. If you bought an average cpu last year it was 6 cores at 3.5ghz. l3 cache of

If you bought a Core I7-990x in 2011 you got 6 cores at 3.47ghz. l3 cache of 12mb. If you bought an average cpu last year it was 6 cores at 3.5ghz. l3 cache of 12mb. The latest chips might have a couple more cores but also tend to be less frequency; or the 6 core is 4.1ghz. Instruction sets havent even changed much. The only thing that really made things faster got killed by Spectre. We really havent increased in speed over the last decade. So what happened? Nothing, nobody noticed.