Re:Ryzen is for Programmers
by ioulian on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @05:59AM
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The Moore's law is maybe not dead, but it indeed feels that the speed isn't changing that much.
Think about that: a 4 back your PC started in 10 seconds and 2 years back it's starting in 5 seconds, that's 5 second difference that you feel.
Currently the PC's start at 2.5 seconds and the speed difference is much less, so it feels like the power is not progressing that fast.
I have recently "upgraded" my desktop with an SSD (but have an old CPU i7 4780k or something) and it loads in a few seconds. But I don't want to upgrade my CPU just yet as it will only make everything only 1 second faster, not worth 300 USD I think.
But if you do a lot of data processing, software builds, ... You can increase the speed much more, and then it should matter.
Think about that: a 4 back your PC started in 10 seconds and 2 years back it's starting in 5 seconds, that's 5 second difference that you feel.
Currently the PC's start at 2.5 seconds and the speed difference is much less, so it feels like the power is not progressing that fast.
I have recently "upgraded" my desktop with an SSD (but have an old CPU i7 4780k or something) and it loads in a few seconds. But I don't want to upgrade my CPU just yet as it will only make everything only 1 second faster, not worth 300 USD I think.
But if you do a lot of data processing, software builds, ... You can increase the speed much more, and then it should matter.