> Buy a laptop with an A8 three years ago
> Want to buy another laptop
> They still have A8 and i7 as the standard
Has technology stagnated?
>>55117765
yep last gens processors aren't far off the newer stuff
>>55117765
>a new a8 or i7 can't be better than an older a8 or i7
YOU'RE A FUCKING IDIOT YOU FUCKING IDIOT
>>55117813
desu they really aren't
the performance growth in the last few years has been horrendous
>>55117844
???
>>55117922
3970X is a hexcore, 5960X is a octocore
>>55117922
>>55117944
also 4770K turbos 300mhz faster when four cores are loaded
>>55117922
The game is GPU bound
>>55117765
It hasn't. The A8 processors of today are about twice as powerful and more than twice energy efficiency as the first A8s AMD released. The fuck are you smoking?
>>55117973
>i3 2100 39fps
>i3 4330 50 fps
>i5 2500 60 fps
>i5 4670 77 fps
>i7 2600 70 fps
>i7 3770 84 fps
>fx 8150 48 fps
>fx 8350 57 fps
>fx 9590 67 fps
>fx 6100 41 fps
>fx 6300 47 fps
>fx 4100 37 fps
>fx 4300 43 fps
>technology has stagnated
>>55118033
>compare dual core to quad core
>>55118140
There's a single thread rating too you fucking retard.
>>55117765
Hold out for Zen Apus, about a year from now.
>>55118041
/thread
>>55117765
Well the modern APU runs on 15W comparatively, but wait for polaris in GPUs if you want to do gaming
>>55117765
Mate. I have a PC from the end of 2012. See literally no reason to upgrade anything except for my video card which died. Technology is stagnated, yes.
its basically since cpus are reaching their wattage/nano scale threshold.
>>55118807
That could just mean software isn't progressing, why do you assume it's hardware?
>>55118033
To be fair, the 4500m was never a good choice. The 4455m has half the TDP with a Base clock of 1.6 and a turbo speed of 2.6. When plugged in it'll stay pegged at 2.6, making the performance difference minimal while giving you much better battery life on the go. That being said, current gen APUs are significantly better and Bristol Ridge is right around the corner.
>>55120732
>why do you assume it's hardware?
Not him but if only we had some way of measuring hardware performance and comparing it to the performance of other hardware. If we could create such metrics, such "benchmarks", we could potentially see the trend of hardware development and improvement or rather the lack thereof.
>>55118401
The point is diminishing returns
>>55120870
You mean shit like
>>55117922
?
>>55117973
GTA 5 is CPU intensive
>>55121043
>One of the most CPU intensive games recently released
>Still only shows a minor difference between CPU generations.
>>55117765
of course.
when a 6 year old cpu is still good enough to get the job done why buy a new one?
the only things people mostly buy are hard drives and graphicscards.
