If you follow hardware enthusiast reviews for high performance hardware, note how info-graphics have changed scale over time. A few years ago, the difference between competing products (CPU, GPU, HDD, RAM, etc.) used to differ in seconds and now the X axis is often in milliseconds yet the graph appears to yield a much greater deviation that people base their purchasing decisions on with a quick glance.
This is significant if you look at things like the battle between AMD and Intel where there is little difference in mid range CPU performance (which now have the performance to make most power users happy) yet consumers are buying into Intel's marketing rather than taking advantage of AMD's cost savings.
Graphics cards have also jumped over the, "Will it run Crysis?" apex a while ago and there are fewer perceptible performance gains over the last several generations. But there will be improvements as graphics cards as they don't need the GPU to get smaller for performance to get better and the major players are starting to add components that perform specialized tasks which improve rendering quality and speed.
Spinny disk HDD's however are about to be blown away with the new SSD tech coming down the pipe. I had a chance to demo some managed file transfer software that makes these things slam the most read/write demanding programs open almost instantly. Storage is really the last major bottleneck.
Anyway... I know... too much info... it's just something I've noticed as well. :)
This is important info for when I lead my minions in post-apocalyptic 2013! :D
This is significant if you look at things like the battle between AMD and Intel where there is little difference in mid range CPU performance (which now have the performance to make most power users happy) yet consumers are buying into Intel's marketing rather than taking advantage of AMD's cost savings.
Graphics cards have also jumped over the, "Will it run Crysis?" apex a while ago and there are fewer perceptible performance gains over the last several generations. But there will be improvements as graphics cards as they don't need the GPU to get smaller for performance to get better and the major players are starting to add components that perform specialized tasks which improve rendering quality and speed.
Spinny disk HDD's however are about to be blown away with the new SSD tech coming down the pipe. I had a chance to demo some managed file transfer software that makes these things slam the most read/write demanding programs open almost instantly. Storage is really the last major bottleneck.
Anyway... I know... too much info... it's just something I've noticed as well. :)