Architecture Change

Deus Regum · March 7, 2015

Hey guys. Just curious. Which architecture change of a processor, be it a CPU or GPU, gave the highest jump of performance from its predecessor.? you know, like an exponential increase, not incremental.

or nothing of that sort has happened yet?

(not sure if this is the right thread. so tell me if i need to move it somewhere)

IMPERIUS · March 7, 2015

For Intel cpus every new gen got about 10% increase

NeatSquidYT · March 7, 2015

GPU architectual differences are the most hyped, and for good reason. CPU architectures can be good, but only usually for X series.

VerticalDiscussions · March 7, 2015

Architecture change usually isnt monumental, exept when they transaction from 32nm or 28nm to 14nm and below, usually it comes with 40%+ Energy effieciency and 25%+ Performance and Less Heat Output gains. This is the mobile world, as for the desktop world the die size of cpu's takes a long time to transact (I think only in 2017 well start seeing 10nm desktop cpus and such).

harrynowl · March 7, 2015

CPU:

Netburst (Prescott/Presler) -> Core (Conroe/Kentsfield). This wasn't incremental as it was moving from a poo architecture that should never have existed to one that was really good for its time.

GPU:

The GeForce 8800 launch was huge.

The Radeon 9700 Pro/XT was also very powerful in its time compared to previous gens/competition.

GeForce 9800 series -> GTX200 series was a pretty big jump. As was GTX200 to GTX400 series.

Radeon 4000 series -> Radeon 5000 series was pretty big.

But I think the biggest improvement recently was Intel's Integrated Graphics. In which the flagship has increased in performance a lot in just 2 years.

GPUs tend to ride the wave with performance increases being pretty big when we move to a considerably smaller manufacturing process, a 40% process reduction means 40% more space for cores which means more performance (it can be fairly linear as these are parallel tasks).