If cpu's only improve by 10% each year nowadays, what about gpus?

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Please tell me, the reverse is happening with gpus..
I'm curious to see if there is going to be arguments about real world performance increases here. Thanks.
 
Wouldn't the reverse be -10 percent every year? Because no, that isn't true. And CPU's don't improve by just 10 percent. AMD's FX CPUs just are not very good and bulldozer to piledriver little performance increase is proof of that. Intel goes by a path called Tick-Tock. Tick's are small performance increases, like Ivy Bridge. Sandy Bridge was a tock. So, Ivy Bridge was 10 percent better than Sandy bridge, while Nahalem to Sandy Bridge was around a sixty percent increase. So, Ivy to Haswell could also be a 60 percent increase. We don't know with GPU's yet, but the 690 to the titan is a 10 percent increase. Hover, a 6970 to 7970 was a big increase.
 
Lol, typo. I meant around 30 percent. Though a i7 920 scored 5000 points in passmark while the 3770 scored 10,000.
 
Intel fully said haswell only be a minor upgrade, around 10-15%, please send me some of that stuff too lol.
 
Your way over blowing the performance difference of newer architectures. I biggest difference in clock for clock was with going from the P4 to the Core 2, which I dont even think it was that much even then. Usually its hardly any to up about 10/15% on average.
 
I went from an i5 760 to an i5 2500K and the performance difference isn't that huge. I wouldn't say the 2500K is 30% faster.

In fact, the main reason for me upgrading from Lynnfield to Sandy Bridge was so that I could use more than 16GB of RAM (my P55 board was limited to 16GB) and to get features like SATA 6GB/s and USB 3.0 - and a processor which was better for overclocking. So most of the reasons for upgrading were to do with features on the motherboard.
 
StrangleHold said:
Your way over blowing the performance difference of newer architectures. I biggest difference in clock for clock was with going from the P4 to the Core 2, which I dont even think it was that much even then. Usually its hardly any to up about 10/15% on average.
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Oh yes it was. The performance difference between the P4 and Core 2 was vast. I remember, because I was not able to get the Core 2 when it came out and was very upset at how better others could game with it.

I dont think there is a set percentage of how much faster new technology is when its released. It just happens. Like the P4 and Core 2, the GeForce 5 series and then the 6 series, and then the GeForce 7 series and 8 series. The thing that made all these significantly faster, is they were new using new technology and new architecture. That doesnt happen every year. Video cards had been using the same technology and design from the 90s up until 2006 or 2007. And thats when we saw a major jump in performance from the previous flagship to the next. Its when something like that happens that we see a major performance improvement. Until then, they are basically just perfecting an existing architecture and technology. Like nVidia has been doing since the release of the 8 series. Each new line released was using the same base architecture, it just kept being improved upon each year.

Which is in fact why my name is G80FTW. The G80 core revolutionized the way graphics cards were made, and its base architecture is still used in cards like my 680.
 
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I cannot wait for the next big jump, a repeat of the P4 > Conroe increase would be incredible with today's chips. We know it's not gonna happen with Haswell, and with Broadwell likely being only a die-shrink it's unlikely to happen here too.

Skylake could be intersting, but that's 2+ years off :(

I can't wait for 2015 and beyond!
 
This is a month old thread, I don't know if you should bump a thread this old, and besides, the Titan is different then the 690, as the titan isn't made as a gaming card completely, unlike the 690. So we still have no idea what is happening with GPUs, so there is no point in listineing to any of us right now.
 
I don't think people have a problem with people bumping threads of just a month or so.

It's when you get to 1 year+ people get the ass ache :P


Although I have no idea why this happens, things change over time, instead of cluttering the forum with new threads, why not simply carry on the old one with the new information, just update the title!

Maybe people like the archives, I don't have interest in them myself.

And now I'm going off topic :P
 
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Because then we would get less trafic when people Google something. If you want to know if the GPU is doing the reverse of CPUS, then Google that. Because even if there are still posts that say no, if the thread name is different, it will go way down in Google rankings.
 
Just some news I read on guru.
AMD will release the volcanic islands cards on the end of this year (9xxx series)
From only the specs from the new hd9970, I can conclude that it will almost double the performance of our current hd7970.

Sorry if I brought back an old topic here, but this is news I've for this present moment.
 
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Heard that too. But what I understand its still up in the air if it will be the 8000 or 9000 series.
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No, the 8000 series should be only OEM. But a month ago the hd8970 announced his specs. And I think it said Q2 or 3 for that card, but I can be wrong lol.
 
http://www.overclock.net/t/1389133/vc-nvidia-geforce-gtx-770-780-pictured-780-features-gk110-300-gpu

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G80FTW said:
Oh yes it was. The performance difference between the P4 and Core 2 was vast
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Pentium D was in between those two actually.


Although I can't blame you for trying to forget about their awfulness

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No, the 8000 series should be only OEM. But a month ago the hd8970 announced his specs. And I think it said Q2 or 3 for that card, but I can be wrong lol.
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How confusing is that?? 8xxx would be way more logical...although 9xxx sounds MUCH BETTER AND NEWER ZOMG
 
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