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Is it? Have a look at this article from 2002: > With the cuts, the wholesale cost of a 733-MHz Pentium III drops 3 percent, from $776 to $754, while the 700-MH
by mabbo 4y ago
Is it? Have a look at this article from 2002:
> With the cuts, the wholesale cost of a 733-MHz Pentium III drops 3 percent, from $776 to $754, while the 700-MHz version drops 3 percent from $754 to $733 in volume.
https://www.cnet.com/culture/intel-cuts-pentium-iii-prices-1/ https://www.cnet.com/culture/intel-cuts-pentium-iii-prices-1...
$754 in today's dollars is over $1250.
Cutting edge processors are cheaper than they were 20 years ago.
- ChuckNorris89 4y agoIndeed. People forget that flagship Intel Extreme Edition or AMD Athlon FX chips from ~17 years ago were retailing for over 1000$ in the money of that time. In today's roubles they would be around 1500$ adjusted for inflation. Ouch! Today 750$ for a flagship CPU that buys you the best possible compute in the consumer space is not a bad deal at all. It's never been a better time for X86 CPU shopping. You most likely don't need to buy the most expensive flagship CPU. There's great options for every budget. The GPU market on the other hand is completely fucked. In 2007 you could get a 8800 GTS for 360$ (520$ today) giving you near flagship performance. I feel like AMD and Intel are competing in the CPU space while AMD and Nvidia entered in a gentlemen's agreement to control the GPU market.
- bombcar 4y agoYeah, the "top of the line" processors were often insanely priced (and some were not available for love or money, basically paper launches only available to those with connections). https://www.redhill.net.au/iu.php https://www.redhill.net.au/iu.php is a good read down memory lane about those things, even as far back as the 286 you had it. Sometimes very rarely and almost as a mistake the "best bang for the buck" processor AND the "fastest in the world" would overlap.