New Computer, Have CPU's even progressed in the last 2-3 years? (Dollar/performance)

pantera989

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Hi guys, I feel it's time to look at a new CPU/MB/RAM; however taking a look, there doesn't seem to be anything that will really be more then 5-10% faster than what I already have at the same price point (what happened to moore's law!). As per my last thread when building my current machine, my main use is photo/video editing, using lightroom premiere pro etc. Gaming is important, but second to this.

I'm just after an new CPU/MB/RAM, and possibly a new SSD. I'm currently using an 3 gen old i7-3930k, 16GB (4x4) 2133mhz Dominator RAM and Gigabyte GA-X79-UP4 mainboard. I'll be keeping my Case, watercooling, GTX980Ti and HDD's.

Having a look at the new 6th Gen equivalent to my processor, I'd be looking at either an 6800k or 6850k, the first being about 15% cheaper than RRP for my current processor, and the second about 15% more. However in Benchmarks, it looks like I'd be lucky to get 5% gains with the first, and even less in some benchmarks due to its much lower boost clocks. The later might get 15-20% more performance, but a cost of 15% more, seems like it's not really a good buy. Has CPU performance not really moved in the last 3 gens, or as intell just been increasing its prices at the same rate as its been increase performance?

To me it looks like I would need to spend over 2x the RRP of my current processor on an 6900K to get any real noticeable gains?
 

pantera989

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My 3930k is also an 6 core processor, comparing to there new 6 core equivalents. The benchmarks I looked at where for multi core tasks, and for single core performance. The performance increase was about the same for both (-5%-+5% for the 6800k, and +15-20% for 6850k, vs my current 3930k)