What would you put in a "Big Bigger Biggest" episode that involves CPUs and GPUs?

"Wheelerguy" (wheelerguy) 04/23/2020 at 09:30 • Filed to: AMD, Intel, computerlopnik, Big Bigger Biggest

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For consumer gaming CPU, we’d probably have the Ryzen 9 as the “Biggest” and the RTX2080 o r 3080TI for GPUs, but which would be the “Big” and “Bigger”, and how many iterations would we need to cover all the major leaps in manufacturing, cores and processing power?

themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles > Wheelerguy 04/23/2020 at 09:41

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Big - Athalon FX processors, ATI 9800 graphics card

Bigger - Core2 lineup (particularly skulltrail) , Nvidia 8800/9800 lineup (especiall the 9800 GX2)

Wheelerguy > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 04/23/2020 at 10:45

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Oh yeah, the next biggest leap will definitely be more cores. But how big is the leap between the original Core2 Duo and Ryzen 390 0X? Which two or three processors could be “bridges” that have their own leaps?

themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles > Wheelerguy 04/23/2020 at 11:09

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Honestly, in terms of speed and power, the i7 2600 was so good for so long for GPU intensive workloads that it’s not easy to point to a single one and say it revolutionized anything. I’d say the original Ryzen lineup was a big step forward, but Intel has been so lazy over the past decade that they never put something out after the 2600 that really proved to be a big leap forward. But the Core2 series so effortlessly dominated for so many years it can’t be ignored.

The only processor I would put between the Core2 and today would be the 2600k. And that’s only if you twist my arm. Everything else has been just incremental evolutions at best, IMO.

Wheelerguy > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 04/24/2020 at 05:12

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So the episode then would go:

Intel 4004/8080 —> Athlon FX —> Core2 Duo —> i7 2600 —> Ryzen 9/TR