[HN Gopher] The first yearly drop in average CPU performance in ...
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The first yearly drop in average CPU performance in its 20 years of
benchmarks
Author : LorenDB
Score : 35 points
Date : 2025-02-11 20:00 UTC (3 hours ago)
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| epicureanideal wrote:
| I wonder if we need an inflation adjusted measure? Maybe this is
| CPU shrinkflation?
| johnklos wrote:
| So other than Windows constantly and actively slowing down
| machines, we have dust collecting which then causes CPUs to
| throttle sooner... I'd be interested to see what the trend in
| average scores looks like for machines that don't otherwise
| change over time, although I can't imagine anyone would run
| Passmark every day or every week for a few years.
| nicce wrote:
| Not only Windows but all the software that counters hardware-
| level vulnerabilities. I bet those tests don't disable them.
| crazygringo wrote:
| By this point, it feels like we ought to be benchmarking CPU+GPU.
| The same way it already seems to be measuring multi-core.
|
| Maybe the drop is some kind of artifact. But it would also be
| interesting if it started making more sense to invest more in
| improving GPU's, even at the cost of CPU's, for a large part of
| the market.
| lerp-io wrote:
| it's cuz developing countries are using more computers
| mtreis86 wrote:
| Performance per watt continues to increase tho
| sonofhans wrote:
| I don't believe these numbers mean what they think. Their sample
| size has dropped dramatically since the previous year, from 100k
| to 25k for laptops and from 186k to 48k for desktops. Given that
| all the data comes from people choosing to run the benchmark, I
| wonder what population has suddenly left the data, and if that is
| significant.
|
| Also consider that the CPU is only one component of this
| benchmark. The article itself says that Windows 11 performance is
| worse than Windows 10. This might be another instance of "What
| Andy [Grove] giveth, Bill [Gates] taketh away."
| crazygringo wrote:
| > _Their sample size has dropped dramatically since the
| previous year, from 100k to 25k for laptops and from 186k to
| 48k for desktops._
|
| I suspect that's just an effect of 2025 data being limited to
| just ~January, rather than a full 12 months.
|
| If people run a benchmark only once every 4 months on average,
| that would certainly explain the sample size.
| Pannoniae wrote:
| Could be several things, ranging from mundane to very concerning.
|
| - People are downgrading their computers.
|
| - Windows 11 is more bloated and slower, decreasing the test
| scores.
|
| - All the security mitigations are making everything slower but
| they've been masked by hardware improvements in the past. Now
| there isn't much in terms of that so we start the slow descent to
| death.
| citrin_ru wrote:
| It could also mean that consumer are buying more budget models
| and less pro- ones. Given cost of living crisis (at least in
| Europe) it would not be surprising.
| taneq wrote:
| - People buying new high end computers are no longer
| benchmarking them (at least with PassMark) while people buying
| lower end or second hand computers still do so
|
| I know I haven't bothered on my last two computers, partly
| because CPU performance is so far past what I need for most
| workloads, and partly because for the rest, I care about actual
| workload rather than synthetic benchmarks.
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