Question Do archives exist of Tom's CPU/GPU hierarchy charts from the past ?

[1405]

Is there anywhere that Tom's Hardware archives their old CPU/GPU hierarchy charts from the very earliest ones? I'd sure like to look thru those again. Early Athlons, Phenoms, C2Ds, etc.

 

[Deleted member 2947362]

When was Toms Hardware bought from it's original creator?

I don't know the history of Toms Hardware and have been coming to this site since around 1999 it would make great read If Toms Hardware done an article on the history of the website.

Bit like what Microsoft done with the history of Xbox but that was a video of cause.

 

[Eximo]

The current hierarchy chart link is the same as the old ones, so probably not directly.

Typically, I just use passmark to provide comparisons between old and new CPUs. Comparing single thread and multithread performance is enough for most purposes.

 

[1405]

The current hierarchy chart link is the same as the old ones, so probably not directly.

Typically, I just use passmark to provide comparisons between old and new CPUs. Comparing single thread and multithread performance is enough for most purposes.

OK. I'll see how that works out. Passmark doesn't seem to compare GPUs tho, do they?
Btw, I didn't know Tom's was under new management recently. I should have copied those old charts when I had the chance. I would have if I knew they were going to disappear.

 

[Jason-Julius]

Is there anywhere that Tom's Hardware archives their old CPU/GPU hierarchy charts from the very earliest ones? I'd sure like to look thru those again. Early Athlons, Phenoms, C2Ds, etc.

Tom's Hardware is a popular technology website known for its hardware reviews and guides. While they regularly update their CPU and GPU hierarchy charts to reflect the latest models, it might be challenging to find archived versions of the very earliest charts on their website.

 

[1405]

Tom's Hardware is a popular technology website known for its hardware reviews and guides. While they regularly update their CPU and GPU hierarchy charts to reflect the latest models, it might be challenging to find archived versions of the very earliest charts on their website.

Yeah... like darn near impossible.

 

[BFG-9000]

The hierarchy chart (where even old legacy CPUs and GPUs are ranked overall in tiers, in the same table as modern ones) is a pretty recent thing, but Tom's has long had charts comparing everything then available in individual tests. Those are probably still listed if you dig far back enough on the main site but the formatting can be off or images missing, so you could also use the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine in San Francisco to see how those articles looked on Tom's back then.

For example this is how the page looked 10 years ago during the Haswell era and the charts from then do list some of the old processors you refer to. They didn't actually have charts yet when those processors were new, so the only thing to look at from that far back are their actual reviews, where of course they didn't compare the then new thing with very many predecessors.

 

[1405]

The hierarchy chart (where even old legacy CPUs and GPUs are ranked overall in tiers, in the same table as modern ones) is a pretty recent thing, but Tom's has long had charts comparing everything then available in individual tests. Those are probably still listed if you dig far back enough on the main site but the formatting can be off or images missing, so you could also use the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine in San Francisco to see how those articles looked on Tom's back then.

For example this is how the page looked 10 years ago during the Haswell era and the charts from then do list some of the old processors you refer to. They didn't actually have charts yet when those processors were new, so the only thing to look at from that far back are their actual reviews, where of course they didn't compare the then new thing with very many predecessors.

Hey man, thanks. That is an archive site I didn't know existed. Even if I don't find the old cpu/gpu hierarchy charts, there's other good stuff there.