Has CPU technology reached its peak? I can alternate between

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>>55085909
>not notice any difference in performance.
I think that you have meant "not notice any difference in performance during some Internet browsing, light gaming and things like that".
In AAA games there is a deference, but it's not huge though.

>>55085909
Kind of, yea. Outright performance has been pushed aside for power efficiency. Current processors are AMAZINGLY powerful for their power draw compared to older ones, but not significantly much more powerful overall. What this has led to, though, is very high numbers of cores in a single package.

>>55085909
No. My HPC cluster today is like an order of magnitude faster than ones from several years ago. It's all in how you structure your architecture to deal with high core count hardware. Most interesting problems these days are parallel anyway.

>>55085909
I think you're on the wrong board buddy.
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>>55085909
It's not that CPU has reached it's peak, it's that for the past 6 years.... nothing has really pushed the CPU to it's peak since we were all using DX11 and that was really made with single core processors in mind.

The issue with DX11 is that it dumps almost all the workload onto the first core of the CPU and it doesn't do shit with the other cores. Pic related and just because it's a AMD pic doesn't mean this isn't also true for Intel processors.

We've only begun to scratch the surface of multicore use for preformance. With new technologies such as Mantle, Vulcan and DX12, we've finally started to push the CPU more and more by making use of all the core it has.