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End of the Road - Anandtech has closed down (www.anandtech.com)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Anand la shimpi, the founder, left almost a decade ago, and that seems to have weakened it a good bit, then we got YouTube channels like GN and we just blast them into out feeds quickly because we don't care about the specific numbers as much as a broad brush.

I remember 20 years ago when performance really, really mattered, but now things are so fast it's a difference you can't always easily see unless you're trying to run over 4k and the game is jokingly badly optimized.

[–] cm0002 9 points 3 months ago

I remember 20 years ago when performance really, really mattered, but now things are so fast it's a difference you can't always easily see

Yea, I remember back in the day a couple years old system would be obviously out of date and painful (IF you weren't just using it for simple stuff like office work) to use. The past 15 years or so things have been just so efficient and quick that I've been extending my hardware refresh cycles more and more.

I just replaced my old maxed out T440p with its 4th gen i7 last year after going strong since 2015

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

remember 20 years ago when performance really, really mattered

At this point, you could almost just assume next gen CPU is 10% faster than the one that was 10% faster last year.

GPUs are a little more wild, but that's more a side effect of all 3 having wild swings due to hardware changes and driver updates but it's still just a single graph you have to update every few months. Not really enough to run a business on.

[–] naticus 1 points 3 months ago

Anand left 10 years ago to the day of the announcement. Was pretty well timed and I doubt it was coincidental.