if you don't do anything locally that benefits from significant compute performance then, yeah, it's gonna look like the market is standing still. in reality,

if you don't do anything locally that benefits from significant compute performance then, yeah, it's gonna look like the market is standing still. in reality, even in intel land much progress has been made in single-thread performance and even more for multi-thread. take a look at these benchmarks comparing a 4770k (4C/8T) against a 10700k (8C/16T), both launching at $350: https://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/2659?vs=2664 https://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/2659?vs=2664