{"id":524050,"date":"2022-12-09T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/remember-when-new-cpus-were-always-a-huge-upgrade\/"},"modified":"2022-12-09T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T14:00:00","slug":"remember-when-new-cpus-were-always-a-huge-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/remember-when-new-cpus-were-always-a-huge-upgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"#Remember When New CPUs Were Always a Huge Upgrade?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3cc63857190\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3cc63857190\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/remember-when-new-cpus-were-always-a-huge-upgrade\/#%E2%80%9CRemember_When_New_CPUs_Were_Always_a_Huge_Upgrade%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Remember When New CPUs Were Always a Huge Upgrade?&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/remember-when-new-cpus-were-always-a-huge-upgrade\/#PCs_in_the_2000s\" >PCs in the 2000s<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/remember-when-new-cpus-were-always-a-huge-upgrade\/#Where_Did_Things_Go_Wrong\" >Where Did Things Go Wrong?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/remember-when-new-cpus-were-always-a-huge-upgrade\/#The_CPU_Competition_Is_Heating_Up_Again\" >The CPU Competition Is Heating Up Again<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CRemember_When_New_CPUs_Were_Always_a_Huge_Upgrade%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Remember When New CPUs Were Always a Huge Upgrade?&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<figure style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"type:primaryImage size-full wp-image-735719\" data-pagespeed-no-defer=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/The-inside-of-a-gaming-PC-showing-a-motherboard-with-watercooling.jpeg?width=1198&amp;trim=1,1&amp;bg-color=000&amp;pad=1,1\" alt=\"The inside of a gaming PC showing a motherboard with watercooling.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"type:primaryImage imagecredit\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/image-photo\/open-computer-water-cooling-system-processor-1089987059\">Kreabobek\/Shutterstock.com<\/a><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Nowadays, it seems like many PC hardware upgrades are mostly iterative, incremental upgrades. Other than a few extra cores, or faster-clocked cores, we\u2019re not getting anything truly exciting or earth-shattering. What ever h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ened to the good old days?<\/p>\n<h2 role=\"heading\" aria-level=\"2\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"PCs_in_the_2000s\"><\/span>PCs in the 2000s<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>I\u2019m probably one of the youngest writers on this site, and I\u2019m part of Generation Z, so most of the big moments of that era\u2019s PC space happened when I was a kid. Still, I\u2019ve always been a nerd, and the first gaming PC I managed to get my hands on was an Intel Pentium 4 powerhouse that belonged to my uncle. I also remember asking my parents multiple times to buy me a PC with an Intel Core 2 Duo CPU.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, I never got one\u00a0\u2014 my first personal PC was an Acer netbook that is somehow still alive today. But multi-core chips were all the rage in the 2000s, and it was a centerpiece to a grueling fight between Intel and AMD to see who could do things better.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-835852\" data-pagespeed-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/shutterstock_2025685298-650x366.jpg?trim=1,1&amp;bg-color=000&amp;pad=1,1\" alt=\"A CPU chip orange with heat and smoke flowing from it.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/pagespeed_static\/1.JiBnMqyl6S.gif\" onload=\"pagespeed.lazyLoadImages.loadIfVisibleAndMaybeBeacon(this);\" onerror=\"this.onerror=null;pagespeed.lazyLoadImages.loadIfVisibleAndMaybeBeacon(this);\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"imagecredit\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/image-photo\/cpu-processor-chip-overheats-burns-socket-2025685298\">BLKstudio\/Shutterstock.com<\/a><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>AMD did 64-bit processors first with the Athlon 64 in 2003, then Intel and AMD both launched <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mindbounce.com\/trivia\/the-first-commercial-multicore-microprocessor-was-the\/\">their own initial dual-core offerings<\/a> with the Pentium D and the Athlon 64 X2 in May 2005. Then, Intel got ahead with the first quad-core CPU, the Intel Core 2 Quad, in November 2006. We went from single-core chips to having four processing cores in a single CPU in just a year and a half.<\/p>\n<p>As you can imagine, many of these launches went pretty roughly. The Pentium D was infamous for being slow and running hot, and it\u2019s largely considered to be one of Intel\u2019s most disastrous launches of all time. But once those issues were smoothed out, we were left with amazing, high-performing chips.<\/p>\n<p>Cut to 15 years later, quad-core CPUs, and even dual-core ones, are still prevalent in many laptops and PCs.<\/p>\n<h2 role=\"heading\" aria-level=\"2\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Where_Did_Things_Go_Wrong\"><\/span>Where Did Things Go Wrong?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>To make the story short, one of the two fierce competitors, AMD, started releasing chips that didn\u2019t hold a candle to Intel\u2019s alternatives, slowly making it fall out of favor with enthusiasts and, eventually, average users. Intel was then left as the only major player in the desktop CPU space, and innovation and competition seemed to slow way down.<\/p>\n<p>A lot of Intel CPUs from the early to mid-2010s were basically just incremental innovations. We didn\u2019t get higher core counts, and in many cases, we weren\u2019t even getting huge performance increases. This trend continued for a long time. In 2017, the 7th-generation Core i7-7700K, Intel\u2019s cream of the crop at that time, was\u2026 still a quad-core.<\/p>\n<h2 role=\"heading\" aria-level=\"2\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_CPU_Competition_Is_Heating_Up_Again\"><\/span>The CPU Competition Is Heating Up Again<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<figure style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-824488\" data-pagespeed-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/amd-ryzen-5-3400g-cpu-650x366.jpg?trim=1,1&amp;bg-color=000&amp;pad=1,1\" alt=\"Closeup of an AMD Ryzen 5 3400G CPU held between a person's fingers.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/pagespeed_static\/1.JiBnMqyl6S.gif\" onload=\"pagespeed.lazyLoadImages.loadIfVisibleAndMaybeBeacon(this);\" onerror=\"this.onerror=null;pagespeed.lazyLoadImages.loadIfVisibleAndMaybeBeacon(this);\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"imagecredit\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/image-photo\/malaga-spain-february-1st-2020-holding-1633528630\">Alberto Garcia Guillen\/Shutterstock.com<\/a><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Intel\u2019s throne was shaken up with the launch of AMD Ryzen in 2017, bringing the core increases people were waiting for. And Intel im<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>tely reacted with the launch of hexa-core CPUs, and further increases in core counts in later years. But even then, in 2021, the company\u2019s top 11th gen offering, the Core i9-11900K, was still an octa-core.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, it seems Intel has finally gotten the hang of things again. The 12th-gen CPUs that were launched in late 2021 had a new P-core and E-core system, with the 13th-gen continuing this trend \u2014 the Intel Core i9-13900K has a whopping 24 CPU cores. AMD\u2019s Ryzen 7000, launched in 2022, is basically a continuation of what the company was doing with the previous generation, but we don\u2019t doubt that AMD will have a proper answer to Intel\u2019s hardware soon.<\/p>\n<p>And maybe, just maybe, another PC war will unleash when that happens \u2014 and result, once again, in PC upgrades being massively exciting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n setTimeout(function(){\n  !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n  {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n  n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n  if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n  n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n  t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n  s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s) } (window, document,'script',\n  'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n   fbq('init', '335401813750447');\n   fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  },3000);\n<\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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