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Busting 4 Modern Hardware Myths
- lifeisstillgood 13y ago> Clock speed isn't everything. Example, word split the text > of Alice and Wonderland. Intel Core 2 Duo, 2008, 2.40GHz, > 1434 operations per second. Intel Core, 2011, 2.20GHz, 2674 > operations per second. Clock speed is down but operations > per second have nearly doubled. Trend is continuing. Errr, 2008 -> 2011 = 3 years. And a doubling of "performance" - thus a halving of Moores law. This is real evidence of a massive slowdown in hardware growth.
- wmf 13y agoAnd it's much worse since then, because Sandy Bridge -> Ivy Bridge was only ~5% and Ivy Bridge -> Haswell is only another ~5%.