Re:What I learned from watching my iPad's slow death
by Const-me on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @12:27AM
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> what's happening with smartphones/tablets that suddenly makes them incapable of performing the same tasks
Competition, that’s what happening.
On PCs we had no competition for many years, that’s why performance has stalled. For example, cpubenchmark.net gives 8739 points to i7-2700K from 2011, and 12078 points to i7-7700K from 2016. Very modest 38% improvement in 5 years and 5 generations of CPUs. Same 4 cores/8 threads, same 8MB cache.
Competition, that’s what happening.
On PCs we had no competition for many years, that’s why performance has stalled. For example, cpubenchmark.net gives 8739 points to i7-2700K from 2011, and 12078 points to i7-7700K from 2016. Very modest 38% improvement in 5 years and 5 generations of CPUs. Same 4 cores/8 threads, same 8MB cache.