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might be a form of Jevons Paradox (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

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[–] CovfefeKills@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's all about memory latency and bandwidth now which has improved greatly PC's are still getting faster. There is a new RAM standards being pushed right now CAMM2 is really exciting it pushes back the need for soldered memory.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 3 points 1 day ago

The faster single core out of order execution performance on newer x86 CPUs lets it work on that higher bandwidth of data too.