Back in the day I remember how (to compete with each other) Intel and AMD were constantly bringing out CPU's with higher and higher stock clock speeds. Whilst it was (and is) well known that pure clock speed alone does not equate to best performance (as architecture also plays a huge role especially in these days of multi-core systems), does anyone else feel it's been far too long since we've had any real noticeable increases in raw CPU stock clockspeeds, and miss the good old days of seemingly constant speed increases?
Just check out this range of speeds from 90nm prescott processors around that time - 2.8 to 3.8 GHz - it could just as easilly be the speeds of the as yet unreleased haswell refresh or broadwell processors ten years later!
Even with the fact that sure, more cores means more heat, with all our technological advancements, I'm suprised we haven't seen higher stock speeds yet? With the way computing tech usually speeds forward, isn't an entire decade a hell of a long time for stock speeds to have stagnated for?
Just check out this range of speeds from 90nm prescott processors around that time - 2.8 to 3.8 GHz - it could just as easilly be the speeds of the as yet unreleased haswell refresh or broadwell processors ten years later!
Even with the fact that sure, more cores means more heat, with all our technological advancements, I'm suprised we haven't seen higher stock speeds yet? With the way computing tech usually speeds forward, isn't an entire decade a hell of a long time for stock speeds to have stagnated for?
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