Busting 4 Modern Hardware Myths

[prajjwal]

http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/6/13/busting-4-modern-hardware-myths-are-memory-hdds-and-ssds-rea.html

[lifeisstillgood]

> Clock speed isn't everything. Example, word split the text > of Alice and Wonderland. Intel Core 2 Duo, 2008, 2.40GHz, > 1434 operations per second. Intel Core, 2011, 2.20GHz, 2674 > operations per second. Clock speed is down but operations > per second have nearly doubled. Trend is continuing.

Errr, 2008 -> 2011 = 3 years. And a doubling of "performance" - thus a halving of Moores law. This is real evidence of a massive slowdown in hardware growth.

[wmf → lifeisstillgood]

And it's much worse since then, because Sandy Bridge -> Ivy Bridge was only ~5% and Ivy Bridge -> Haswell is only another ~5%.