CPU competition and progression increase after AMD Ryzen launch?

[IfAjinhadH]

For the last few years, Intel had no competition, so it seems like the performances on their processors didn't increase much. They just want to milk as much money they can (by giving newer generations small performance increase) until competition comes back. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Going from 7,599 to 7,987 doesn't seem so significant.
Let's take a look at i5-3570k. Passmark score is 7,130
i5-4670k: 7,599
i5-6600k: 7,987
i7-980X: 8,948

When there was competition with AMD.
i7-920: 4981
i5-655k: 3,325
i5-2500k:6,446

Going from 3,325 to 6,446 seems significant. 7,130 to 7,599 didn't seem significant. What was better was that the i5 from the 2nd generation was better than the 1st generation of i7. (Sorry if this sounds stupid. I know companies can name their products whatever they want.)

Does this mean the newer CPUs released by Intel will have more significant performance progressions, due to the competition with AMD?

 

[Gam3r01]

It means its getting harder to push better performance. Intel has refined its architecture to a point where they realistically cant get the same historical jumps from gen to gen.

Competition has some bit to do with it, but that is more so due to pricing, not performance.

 

[akseli]

For a consumer, competion is mainly about price.

All high end Intel CPUs released last 10 years or so, have not been the bottleneck in gaming rigs, performance has been limited by GPU.

 

[deadgamer2]

Grandmaster
It means its getting harder to push better performance. Intel has refined its architecture to a point where they realistically cant get the same historical jumps from gen to gen.

Wouldn't adding more cores or increasing die size help?

 

[akseli]

Adding more cores won't help if the software doesn't take advantage of it. Software developement is lagging behind hardware developement when it comes to multicore processing, for typical applications and games.

 

[Gam3r01]

Cores are only as valuable as they can be used. Most processes cant even use 8 threads, which is becoming the new standard (slowly).

Die size means nothing next to actual architecture.

 

[why_wolf]

the age of major jumps in CPU performance is over. They're running hard up against the laws of physics with what they can do with silicon.