CPU Innovation is dead how many of you
feel this way like every time you upgrade your computer you're saving 32
cents on your power bill this month and not getting better performance in games
creative applications or even just general
usage well the thing about feelings is
that they're difficult to quantify so we gathered up every top Intel CPU from the
last 10 years put together an epic
comparison for you performance power consumption
thermals and price is innovation dead is
it More Than A
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code at the link below let's start with our testing
methodology we used the same video card on every platform even though the GTX
1080 wasn't even a twinkle in Jensen's eye when the Pentium extreme Edition 955
was the King of the Hill we did this because we wanted the main variable to
be CPU performance rather than allowing this to turn into a comparison of of the
best overall systems through the years
with that said DDR memory has gone all
the way from 667 MHz dual channel to
over 2,000 MHz quad channel so our
compromise there was to use a high-end RAM and motherboard combination that
would have been typical at the time we went 10 years back and for every year
picked out the first extreme Edition Intel CPU then for each one We performed
the following tests temperature underload overall system power
consumption in our Skybox stair test and
we put it through a suite of modern CPU and gaming benchmarks though since this
project already had me tunneling into the dark recesses of my past I was
unable to resist benchmarking each CPU on halflife 2 as well using such old
Hardware presented a few challenges not least of which was we had to use Windows
7 on all of our builds to ensure driver
and game support CPU Mark was the first
test and the results were very boring
since they were just numbers on a spreadsheet but then I had John turned
it into a graph ha much better while the
multi-threaded results that use all of the CPU's cores show incremental
performance improvements the hidden story here is the single-threaded result
where we see Intel's current 10 core Flagship the 6950x getting outperformed
by chips going all the way back to 2011
in y cruncher a benchmark that calculates 50 million digits of pi we
tested in multi-threaded mode which gave us similar results to CPU Mark
incremental improvements cinebench proved to be interesting as I initially
expected the results would mimic CPU Mark but I was pleasantly surprised the
6950x sat at the top as King in both
multi-threading and single core tests
with the oldest chip a Pentium on the
bottom Lucky Dog onto our first real
world Benchmark Adobe Media encoder again shows the older x79 chips with
their higher single core clock speeds beating the
6950x in the more commonly used GPU
accelerated rendering method a video where we went more into this and why it
happens can be found here each of the game benchmarks seemed
to tell the same old story of incremental performance bumps rise of
the Tomb Raider our modern game engine representative managed to scale through
all generations only slowing down when
going from 8 to 10 cores Crisis 3
representing an older AAA engine improved very little pass the i7 965 as
it is not a very multi-threaded title and then there was halflife 2 whose
numbers don't show us much other than boring old incremental bumps but here
are the results for Nostalgia purposes so yes for the most part each
chip performed better than its predecessor but the margin of
improvement from Chip to chip shows a steady downward Trend though I'm sure
for some of you this didn't come as much of a surprise Intel has publicly stated
their R&D is less focused on huge increases in processing power for
Consumer PCS because they want to direct their attention to mobile data centers
Internet of Things devices and the cloud
so then CPU power draw and heat output
which are very important to those markets that's way down on newer
products right only sort of at idle
power saving features have improved this dramatically but when working hard on
the high end at least Intel has settled into a thermal and power budget they're
comfortable with and they seem to be just adding more cores accordingly so
efficiency is up that is performance per
watt but your power draw while gaming will likely remain mostly
unchanged let's look at pricing Trends now for an entire decade a, us give or
take would get you the Pinnacle of Intel consumer engineering not so anymore
they're asking a whopping $700 for their Flagship Enthusiast
product so conclusion time then
decreasing performance gains and increasing prices the rational human in
me might point at the collapse of Moore's Law caused by the cost and
difficulty of continuing to shrink silicon transistors and Intel's design
goals that have shifted to address growing markets rather than shrinking
ones to explain this but the conspiracy
theorist and me noticed three things one
after 2011 we stopped seeing large
single core performance bumps from extreme Edition chips and after 2013 we
stopped seeing tangible single core improvements in consumer chips at all
two the last time AMD had a CPU in
competition with Intel for the high in Market was in 2008 and three perhaps
most incriminating the Intel logo looks
suspiciously like the eye of a reptile turned on its
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