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> Everything has leveled out a bit until recently. You can say that again. I'm typing this on a desktop PC powered by a Xeon that is approaching 10 years old
by bentcorner 5y ago
> Everything has leveled out a bit until recently.
You can say that again. I'm typing this on a desktop PC powered by a Xeon that is approaching 10 years old and I don't have any complaints. The cost of upgrading it over the years has been modest.
In comparison I have a Nexus 5 that is about the same age and getting modern Android on it is a pain, the processor really struggles and the physical device itself has seen much better days.
- Lammy 5y agoAnecdote: I'm typing this on a 2013 Xeon (Haswell E3v3), and it's acceptable for web/productivity, but the x265 encode performance is absolutely abysmal compared to newer CPUs, especially AMD's. GPU encoding is good for ephemeral streams, but good archival encoding is all CPU-bound: https://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1908148#post1908148 https://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1908148#post1908148 """Luckily""" for me I do mostly standard-definition encodes and can get a sustained ~11FPS with my own ICC-built x265 binaries and my own custom "SD" encoder tuning. Every time I encode an HD video I wonder why I haven't replaced this system yet. Then I look at component prices and remember why.
- humaniania 5y agoThe big jump has been in storage. HDD to SSD is 4-10x and from SSD to NVMe is 4-10x again.
- cmrdporcupine 5y agoYes, I was going to say -- the increase in IOPS is off the charts. I worked at an ad-tech startup in 2010 and that was the biggest bottleneck for what we were trying to do. At that point SSDs were a thing on the desktop, but not really in the datacenter still. Too pricey. Kids today with their insanely high IOPS! They don't know the pain!