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CPU Trends

May 16, 2008 by lyle in
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More so than any other part of our PC, the most exciting and interesting sub system is the processor. Heck, Gordon Moore, the visionary who coined Moore's Law, worked for Intel. Furthermore, the processor of your PC defines the performance characteristics of your PC more so than any other sub system.

This section looks in depth at the world of processors. Roll over any chart for a more detailed analysis of the information. Also, the information is updated monthly, so come back often to see how the world of processors is evolving.

Median Clock Speed Exceeds 2Ghz

Increase In Average Desktop CPU MHz Showing Signs of Slowdown

Desktop Processors Now Outnumber Portables

Desktops Smoke Portables in Overall Computational Power

Intel Portable Marketshare Continues To Tumble

Australia Retains its number One status in The CPU Clock Rankings

Australia Is Gaining on Canada In The Most CPU\'s/PC Contest

Canada Barely Wins The Gold in the CPU Olympics

Intel - Strong in ROW, Growing in Europe

Your Home PC Out-Computes your Work PC

Business Prefers Intel

Men Are Faster than Women

Men Have More Brains Than Women

Men Have 26% More Computational Power than Women

Women Prefer Intel Over AMD

14 Responses to “CPU Trends”

  1. ocean Says:

    Wow!!! Very informative! Thanks for those stats!

  2. Jay Evanoff Says:

    Good information…

  3. Dennis Reiley Says:

    What's missing is a graph on how old the computers are. I suspect that Australia and Canada came out ahead because they are adding and upgrading their old computers at a faster rate then elsewhere.

  4. BM Says:

    That's interesting stats. Obviously woman are prone to user old out dated stuff.

  5. Robert Anderson Says:

    One statistic I would realy like to see is wether the computer being tested at the PC Pitstop site was originally built by the tester or bought already built.

    The question could be "did you assemble this computer from parts yourself?" The question would appear at the last stage of the test (before the results).

    I suspect Canadians roll their own more frequently than other nationalities, but even so it would be only a tiny percentage of all computer owners.

  6. Andre Paquin Says:

    As a Canadian citizen I have to say that it is true that Canadian assemble there own, it is a trend and a good practice encourage by our education system to build new machines and upgrade older ones. But this goes also for the woman and the man.

  7. James Hodson Says:

    The figures about power to gender are hardly unsurprising as blokes (I'm one of 'em) do tend to look at the figures and perhaps ignore almost everything else. Is there anything else?

  8. BM Says:

    If the woman are using single processor, which most of them probably are, how they run their programs? They must be using stuff from 2000 or something. Sure they're running windows XP, but at the same time they use that useless Microsoft Works or something of the sort.

  9. Steve Baguley Says:

    As a builder of desktop systems for many years now I am still at odds as to why people are happy to be manipulated by seemingly large companies blinding them with science and letting them lead them down a path to nowhere! Why not get off their backsides and do something with the tools in their hands and reap the benefits in return.

  10. Jason Says:

    I've been building my own desktops since 1996. My first store bought PC was my laptop I got for going back to college 2 years ago and I paid $600 for it. The inexpensive laptop craze has hit the desktop market and home built market. I just recently updated my desktop because there are still games and such that I have that won't run on anything less than a high end laptop. My case is probably 10 years old, I had to replace it changing from AT to PS/2 type board. What I have built is way cheaper than buying a box off the shelf and will always be.

  11. Hallmark Radiator Cabinets Says:

    the pc at my work don't out power my home pc that's for sure,well I am a geek:-)

  12. walter shebib Says:

    i would like to know what my newly built pc is? 32 bit or 64 bit xp pro sp3

  13. Heather Says:

    Id like to know why it is men seem to think women dont know any thing about computers. some women know a hell of a lot more than some of you men that think you know everything.
    the person that has a newly built pc if its running xp its most likely 32bit and if you built it yourself you should know that, do your research before you build a pc. then you know what your getting.
    For BM who seems to think all women are idiots when it comes to the computer. this one im on right now has an AMD Turian(TM)64 x 2 processor is that from the year 2000 i dont think so. get your facts straight before you start putting every one in the same group.

  14. jetscott1 Says:

    the ability for technology to advance at the rate of which moore's law describes is nothing short of miraculous innovation. the human race will be known for and most certainly changed forever simply by moore's law. were will it take us in the next twenty years? i foresee some very interesting advances in processor technology that will have nothing to do with frequency either in megahertz, nor in gigahertz. rather processors will be rated in light speed or rather in time.

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