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Why so little performance improvements year after year?

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Soldato
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Im getting tired of seeing 10% improvement if we're lucky, i miss the days of doubling every 18 months, even if they gave us more cores each gen we don't see much real benefit, sure it's not about ghz but it doesn't mean single core performance should be so poor, im not sure if there's really much point in upgrading any more, has progress pretty much stagnated?

At this rate it seems we'll be lucky if we see performance double in ten years, the only way they can make up for it is to start doubling core count each gen so we can finally play some realtime raytraced games.

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http://preshing.com/20120208/a-look-back-at-single-threaded-cpu-performance
 
I still don't understand why we don't get more for our money, if they have high quality components and can't give us more than 10% every gen then they should at least give us more cores and/or a higher version for the same price point, so a 4670K is at least as good as a 3770k plus architecture improvements, this is how i always believed it should work with gpu's as well, we seem to get small improvements at the mid range while only the high end really improves, it's all the same materials at the end of the day, it's become a joke.
 
So what's going to happen then, will computers in thirty years time only be a few times as fast?

What good is that, i don't think we'll see anything very interesting coming from them then if things progress at such a slow rate, it will be very disappointing to see games only looking a bit better than today.
 
They shouldn't really let console life go beyond five years as i think it's not helped with progress, there's no doubt things have seriously slowed down, i suspected this was the case years ago and i think it should be quite obvious by now, i mean how can anyone think it's ok for intel to release a cpu at the same price point and core count as something we've had three or so years ago which is only up to 20% faster, this is supposed to be a proper new generation, so why don't i see many complaining about this? :confused:
 
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