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CPU Innovation is dead how many of you

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feel this way like every time you upgrade your computer you're saving 32

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cents on your power bill this month and not getting better performance in games

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creative applications or even just general

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usage well the thing about feelings is

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that they're difficult to quantify so we gathered up every top Intel CPU from the

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last 10 years put together an epic

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comparison for you performance power consumption

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thermals and price is innovation dead is

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it More Than A

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Feeling G fuel is the sugar-free Alternative Energy beverage that helps

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you maintain focus and endurance over long days and gaming sessions use our

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code at the link below let's start with our testing

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methodology we used the same video card on every platform even though the GTX

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1080 wasn't even a twinkle in Jensen's eye when the Pentium extreme Edition 955

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was the King of the Hill we did this because we wanted the main variable to

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be CPU performance rather than allowing this to turn into a comparison of of the

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best overall systems through the years

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with that said DDR memory has gone all

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the way from 667 MHz dual channel to

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over 2,000 MHz quad channel so our

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compromise there was to use a high-end RAM and motherboard combination that

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would have been typical at the time we went 10 years back and for every year

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picked out the first extreme Edition Intel CPU then for each one We performed

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the following tests temperature underload overall system power

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consumption in our Skybox stair test and

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we put it through a suite of modern CPU and gaming benchmarks though since this

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project already had me tunneling into the dark recesses of my past I was

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unable to resist benchmarking each CPU on halflife 2 as well using such old

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Hardware presented a few challenges not least of which was we had to use Windows

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7 on all of our builds to ensure driver

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and game support CPU Mark was the first

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test and the results were very boring

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since they were just numbers on a spreadsheet but then I had John turned

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it into a graph ha much better while the

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multi-threaded results that use all of the CPU's cores show incremental

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performance improvements the hidden story here is the single-threaded result

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where we see Intel's current 10 core Flagship the 6950x getting outperformed

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by chips going all the way back to 2011

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in y cruncher a benchmark that calculates 50 million digits of pi we

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tested in multi-threaded mode which gave us similar results to CPU Mark

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incremental improvements cinebench proved to be interesting as I initially

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expected the results would mimic CPU Mark but I was pleasantly surprised the

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6950x sat at the top as King in both

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multi-threading and single core tests

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with the oldest chip a Pentium on the

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bottom Lucky Dog onto our first real

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world Benchmark Adobe Media encoder again shows the older x79 chips with

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their higher single core clock speeds beating the

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6950x in the more commonly used GPU

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accelerated rendering method a video where we went more into this and why it

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happens can be found here each of the game benchmarks seemed

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to tell the same old story of incremental performance bumps rise of

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the Tomb Raider our modern game engine representative managed to scale through

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all generations only slowing down when

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going from 8 to 10 cores Crisis 3

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representing an older AAA engine improved very little pass the i7 965 as

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it is not a very multi-threaded title and then there was halflife 2 whose

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numbers don't show us much other than boring old incremental bumps but here

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are the results for Nostalgia purposes so yes for the most part each

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chip performed better than its predecessor but the margin of

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improvement from Chip to chip shows a steady downward Trend though I'm sure

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for some of you this didn't come as much of a surprise Intel has publicly stated

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their R&D is less focused on huge increases in processing power for

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Consumer PCS because they want to direct their attention to mobile data centers

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Internet of Things devices and the cloud

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so then CPU power draw and heat output

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which are very important to those markets that's way down on newer

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products right only sort of at idle

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power saving features have improved this dramatically but when working hard on

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the high end at least Intel has settled into a thermal and power budget they're

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comfortable with and they seem to be just adding more cores accordingly so

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efficiency is up that is performance per

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watt but your power draw while gaming will likely remain mostly

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unchanged let's look at pricing Trends now for an entire decade a, us give or

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take would get you the Pinnacle of Intel consumer engineering not so anymore

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they're asking a whopping $700 for their Flagship Enthusiast

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product so conclusion time then

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decreasing performance gains and increasing prices the rational human in

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me might point at the collapse of Moore's Law caused by the cost and

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difficulty of continuing to shrink silicon transistors and Intel's design

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goals that have shifted to address growing markets rather than shrinking

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ones to explain this but the conspiracy

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theorist and me noticed three things one

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after 2011 we stopped seeing large

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single core performance bumps from extreme Edition chips and after 2013 we

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stopped seeing tangible single core improvements in consumer chips at all

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two the last time AMD had a CPU in

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competition with Intel for the high in Market was in 2008 and three perhaps

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most incriminating the Intel logo looks

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suspiciously like the eye of a reptile turned on its

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