CPU advancement has been getting slower and slower

Wow everyone disagrees.

You and all the others on here can deny reality all you want. Facts are that Haswell is a tiny improvement. Ivy wasn't such a huge improvement over Sandy. But sort of decent compared to Haswell.

Facts are also that a bit over a year ago I was choosing a build for a friend and the 2500K has totally become far more pricey now. He was a cheap ass and he even bought a better cpu than it. Now I go back and check the prices and the 2500k costs even more than back then.

Also sorry but more facts are that back in those days around Phenom II games were also advancing their graphics at a much faster rate than now. We had Crysis and many other good graphics games when before them the graphics were far worse. Now days game designers only increase the graphics in small increments. Heck some of these new console games don't even look better than Crysis for gods sake.
There are no companies like the old Crytek that pushed the limit of modern hardware anymore. Just new games being released with old graphics. I can prove this game advancement with many pictures and year dates if the tools on here deny this also.


Also my rig that I built didn't cost me that much and at the time it could play all the newest games at max. Now it seems if I want to build a current rig it will cost 1.5K.

Hard drives were cheaper also and I have receipts to prove this. (I have no idea why people on here deny all this stuff, You don't work for the companies so why defend them with lies).

About the only stuff that has actually become cheaper are flash drives, monitors, SSD's, and I think possibly graphics cards. Seems people have no long term memories on here.

Also before anyone come in here with the monetary inflation excuse, No the inflation has not increased that much at all within the last 5 years. So claiming that when something of equal value now to 5 years ago costs over 20% more now because of inflation is just BS.

I guess you all think Houses haven't become more expensive either. lol. Prob trolls.

My cpu cost me $250 about 3 years ago nearly. Now when looking at upgrading to get anything that is at least 15% faster it's going to cost me well over $300. I also bought my 2tb back in the day for $79 and now they are a minimum of $88. These are in Australian currency before anyone starts posting slightly smaller numbers in American currency.

I don't want more cores. That isn't that useful and that is why a lot of these new cpu's are maybe 15% faster than the last gen, But only on cherry picked benchmarks that utilize 6 or 8 cores. Singe core or even duel core performance isn't really going anywhere fast. Temps are getting hotter and wattage is getting higher. It all seems to me like the CPU's need a huge redesign. There are only so many more cores and transistors and power you can push into a design.

We have reached the point as to where they can't really make cpu's too much more powerful because they would be too hard to cool with the current design.