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PassMark sees the first yearly drop in average CPU performance in its 20 years of benchmark results (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

It could just be noisy data, it's comparing 365 days of 2024 with ~40 days of 2025

From their website:

The first few days or weeks of a new year are less accurate compared to the end of a year.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

I wonder if this has anything to do with Intel's big snafu with gen 13/14 processors. If the solution was to push a microcode update cuts the voltage to the CPUs, it's basically a "stealth" nerf. Their spin doctors have been working overtime to frame this as erroneously high voltages that were being "fixed".

I'd really like to see this graph divided between Intel and AMD.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

i used to put orange stealth nefs up my nose as a child

[–] [email protected] 6 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Did that speed things up for you?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

no, and it cut down on the airflow to my processor

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

Did it stop coolant leak though?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago

How do we spin this as an upgrade?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

Peak CPU?!? Hoping for some kind of graphene terahertz breakthrough.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

How can this even be possible? A drop in CPU performance on average?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

It’s not really the decrease that’s the news here because that decrease is within a margin of error due to other factors. What’s the real news is that the graph has been flat for two consecutive years which is mind boggling!*

  • I rarely use exclamation marks, sorry about that.
[–] [email protected] 14 points 15 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I’ve been caught, abort mission!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

You are using an exclamation mark 4 hours ago: https://sopuli.xyz/comment/14613004

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

I don't see any exclamation marks here, just the Metal Gear alert sound.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 15 hours ago

Anyhow, you're right something is not going great. Although I upgraded to a great Threadripper platform now and we do have great AMD laptop processors. It could have multiple causes:

  • Doing below 4nm, 3nm, and 2 nm will give more and more issues, we are basically hitting a wall. Since quantum effects are increasingly becoming an issue at these small scales. Especially with high NA.
  • Monopoly of AMD in the CPU market, Intel is lacking behind. On the long term this could mean less innovation.
  • Inflation; due to costs rising, people are less willing to invest that much money on their (new) computers and hardware. Since the article refers to "average results of all Windows PC tests across the globe every two weeks". It could be as simple as people having less purging power to all buy new chips. And most people are just "fine" with using 5, 10 or even 15 year old hardware as their daily driver.

Disclaimer: I'm working in the Lithography sector at ASML.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Why is the graph not logarithmic? Urgh

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

Because if it was logarithmic, it would look almost horizontal.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

What? No. Instead we would be able to see steady increases of say 10 % per year as a straight line instead of this, where it appears to be ever larger increases and the first ones essentially invisible.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 51 minutes ago* (last edited 50 minutes ago)

My bad I was only looking at the thumbnail which was cropped and only showed the last few years.