After the MHz and multi-core wars, performance drops.
  • @[email protected]English
    9•6 hours ago

    It could just be noisy data, it’s comparing 365 days of 2024 with ~40 days of 2025

    From their website:

    The first few days or weeks of a new year are less accurate compared to the end of a year.

  • enkersEnglish
    51•15 hours ago

    I wonder if this has anything to do with Intel’s big snafu with gen 13/14 processors. If the solution was to push a microcode update cuts the voltage to the CPUs, it’s basically a “stealth” nerf. Their spin doctors have been working overtime to frame this as erroneously high voltages that were being “fixed”.

    I’d really like to see this graph divided between Intel and AMD.

  • melroy
    10•14 hours ago

    How can this even be possible? A drop in CPU performance on average?

    • @[email protected]OPEnglish
      10•14 hours ago

      It’s not really the decrease that’s the news here because that decrease is within a margin of error due to other factors. What’s the real news is that the graph has been flat for two consecutive years which is mind boggling!*

      • I rarely use exclamation marks, sorry about that.
      • melroy
        11•13 hours ago

        Anyhow, you’re right something is not going great. Although I upgraded to a great Threadripper platform now and we do have great AMD laptop processors. It could have multiple causes:

        • Doing below 4nm, 3nm, and 2 nm will give more and more issues, we are basically hitting a wall. Since quantum effects are increasingly becoming an issue at these small scales. Especially with high NA.
        • Monopoly of AMD in the CPU market, Intel is lacking behind. On the long term this could mean less innovation.
        • Inflation; due to costs rising, people are less willing to invest that much money on their (new) computers and hardware. Since the article refers to “average results of all Windows PC tests across the globe every two weeks”. It could be as simple as people having less purging power to all buy new chips. And most people are just “fine” with using 5, 10 or even 15 year old hardware as their daily driver.

        Disclaimer: I’m working in the Lithography sector at ASML.

        • sunzu2
          7•12 hours ago

          Inflation; due to costs rising, people are less willing to invest that much money on their (new) computers and hardware. Since the article refers to “average results of all Windows PC tests across the globe every two weeks”. It could be as simple as people having less purging power to all buy new chips. And most people are just “fine” with using 5, 10 or even 15 year old hardware as their daily driver.

          I refuse to buy hardware until my current shit breaks from usage… These parasites done fucked around. I am done playing these stupid games. My shit can last through 2030 easily.

          I used to be a hardware whore… but no more.

          Denying these parasites profit as much as I can in every market in participate in!

          Always start your search with used ;)

          • melroy
            2•9 hours ago

            I actually just recently upgraded to new hardware, but you’re right I myself (as a programmer) was actually using not long ago 15 year old PC. Well the motherboard, case and PSU was 15 years old. I upgraded the GPU along the way, twice in total. And I added more ram. And 2 years ago I upgraded to the CPU for 10 euros/dollars using some used server Xeon processor that was compatible with my PLGA1366 socket.

            So actually depending on your needs and small upgrades, you can use old hardware for years. And yes I was still playing games on this 15 year old desktop PC. I just recently upgraded like I said, because mainly I was limited to only SATA 2 and USB 2.0 connectors, so … that. And yes my CPU became the bottleneck for my GPU as well. And I was not able to use NVMe drives of course or anything modern to that regard.

            EDIT: And my fuses always tripped when I switched on the old computer. Awh well, after 15 years it was time to upgrade.