Intel Processor Generations As Fast As Possible *CORRECTED* 

Linus in 2015 doesn't know what for a fantastic processor war we've got in 2021

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If only 2015 Linus could see what AMD could cook up in 2019.

I just color corrected my P6 chip the other day, now I can see it better when removing it from the computer.

Can lynda.com overclock my brain to 4.35Ghz?

linus pls make a AMD version of this.

I sooo wish AMD's Zen will be competitive. Intel needs a kick up their ass

Man, he skipped a lot of my favorite details: 8088, math coprocessors, 286, etc... those were the good old days!

As fast as possible= AFAP

what was the correction about?

Finally. A more accurate description of Moore's law.

Watching in 2020, AMD finally got competitive again.

My Core 2 Quad is still chugging along just fine.

The 4 GB physical ram limit didn't last twenty years on the x86, it was lifted with the Pentium Pro nine years later, which had a 36-bit physical address space due to Physical Address Extension.

I'd love to see the update on this, with Intel now using all the numbers for their 10th gen CPUs!

I got deja vu. Where have i seeing this before. ^^

1:50 Hmm.. a card with "Philippines" printed on it.. Interesting.. O_O And yeah, I remember my family's old Pentium 4 PC and the good old days of Red Alert 2 and Yuri's Revenge. :)

1:34 The 80386 wasn't called "DX" in 1985 (or 1986, when you could actually buy one). "DX" was a much later suffix that was added to the 386 name only when the newer and cheaper version with only 16 bits databus (called "386 SX") was introduced.

1:43 The 80386 wasn't only capable of addressing "system RAM" (whatever that is), but four megabyte of *_any_* semiconductor memory, any mix of ROM, EPROM, SRAM, DRAM, NOR Flash, etc.

Bring back memory lane days with 386 and 486. My i7 6800K remind me a long road of Intel path. Many miss the chance to bootstrap paper tape to start a miini computer with 17.5 MB disk the size of our file cabinet.

You left out the 8008 and 8080 processors, the instruction set and architecture of both of these can be found buried in the x86 even today. The early Celeron processors could actually be modified to work on a dual process motherboard!

Would have liked to have seen more discussion on the earlier chips, the 286, and the 486 were omitted. The 486 especially was instrumental for the success of the win boxes.

Again, thanks for making me feel old (j/k) My first x86 PC was a Tandy 1000 with and 8088. It was a hand me down from my dad after he got a Commodore 64. Technically, my first PC was a Ti99/4a. After the 8088, I got a 286. Then I skipped the 386 and 486 and got a Pentium 75MHz. Upgraded that to a 100MHz. It was then when I performed my first overclock. I ran the 100MHz at 133MHz and never had an issue. Back then, CPU speed was determined by the pattern you set a block of jumpers, usually a few rows of three pins. the jumpers either connected pins 1-2 or 2-3 and the combo of connected pins across the rows set your clock speed. For the most part, you could never set the jumpers for any speed other than the CPU was marked as. I actually set the pins to a pattern not shown in the manual. At the time, I never knew I was actually overclocking. I wouldn't truly overclock again until I got my Athlon 800MHz when I used a pencil (YES A PENCIL) to connect points on the top of the CPUs PCB. I got it to a stable 900MHz.The points were actually the socket pins that went all the way through. Very similar to the Pentium overclocking, the Athlons had a set of 4 pairs of tiny points on the top of the PCB. The speed was determined on how these were connected via small connections. You could use a pencil to connect, unconnected points to change the clock speed, but using a rear window defroster repair kit was the best (basically metal paint)

Pentium Pro had on-die cache. It was included inside the Socket 8 architecture.

I love that not a whole lot changed in the last couple years. I am still using my 2012 i5-3570k clocked at 4.2 GHz and there is basically nothing I cannot do, especially focusing on games. Sure, the more demanding applications (because of bad programming, e.g. ARK:SE) do not run perfectly but they run, reliably, and because of my GTX970 also at pretty good graphics and performance.

Guys there is a new LinusCatTips video, go watch it now!

An episode on the technology behind bone conduction headphones would be pretty sweet, and potentially full of innuendo.

Imagine what specs we would have today if they had 2021 performance back in the 70s.

What's with the 'Philippines' label on the first picture of a Pentium at 1:53?

Yea once sandy bridge came out. It's been pretty incremental performance wise. Kind of a good thing. Doesn't force as many people to the latest hardware as much.

AT 0:06 THE LEGENDRY SOUND EFECT.(FEELS NOSTLOGIA).

you need to do another correction. 8086 is only an 8 bit chip. 80286 moved everything to 16bits. also 2006 marked the release of core duo 32bit chips. core2duo 64bit chips came out in 2007

The Pentium 4 were CPUs? I thought they were space heaters?!

5:48 missed frame in editing.. don't worry I still love you, Linus

No love for the 8008, 8080, and 8087? Kidding of course, this is is a great summary. Good job!

@02:15 _The Pentium III introduced speedstep... was the first CPU from Intel to include an on-die L2 cache._ Little correction. in 1995, 4 years earlier than the PIIII (even before the PII), the *Pentium Pro* included an on-package Level 2 cache (similiar to on-die as it also ran at the same speed as the processor)

just a quick question. Can you code at all Linus? just curious.

the 4004 looks SO ADORABLE HOLY SHIT

Can confirm the Celeron 300A overclocking. It was my second gaming computer and the first one I built myself. It was also my first foray into overclocking.

Much respect for listening to your viewers

From the description: "[...] and sonic logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation." Wait, what?

I'm not satisfied with MMX part, and again, doesn't matter what Intel wants people to belive, K7 was the first 1GHz processor and Athlon X2 the first with integrated memory controller. Way so hard to say so?

What buttons are you pressing with your hands as you are speaking and what are they for?

Hard to believe they left out the 486DX2-66 and 486DX4-100 and 133, where they first introduced the separation of the front-side bus speed from the core CPU clock speed, which was also the first real consumer overclocking opportunity as you could change the FSB multiplier to run your CPU faster!

1:52 do i see the word "philippines" ....what and how

PLEASE DO A HISTORY OF OVERCLOCKING!!!!!

3:22 Amd GPU with sli bridge. nice job linus.

Wow didn't realize I got here exactly as this was uploaded

I hope AMD uses HBM as sort of L4 Cache for their ZENs, would be a blast 'cause RAM's so slooooow compared to every cache on DIE and it would be a nice bridge between these technologies...

please do AMD Processor Generations

the 80386DX66 was still my favorite generation :D

Before the 1ghz barrier was broken. I recall seeing a refrigerant cooled PIII 500 overclocked to 1ghz ... I can't find what the machine was called, or any reference to it, anyone remember these?

Corrected? What was wrong with the first video?

There was NO dispute - AMD was first to 1GHz, and AMD created the 64-bit instruction set. Intel sponsorship ruins the integrity of this video.

Insane I woke up and dreamed about the intro music lol

1:52 was that one manufactured from the Philippines?

the 386 was about 10 years before the pentium, not a few :D can't believe you skipped the 486 - first processor to have an onboard math co-processor.

I switched from AMD to Intel in 2006 with the Intel's dual core processors, and not looked back since sadly. What killed, or is killing AMD was the push for GHZ, and more cores without significantly improving IPCs, L1-3 cache, and memory performance. AMD's shared resources, now slow DDR 3 standard RAM, slow APU CPU performance, and lack of innovation regarding new instruction sets has four of their top CPUs being beaten by Intel's Dual Core solutions in gaming. Application performance is still ok, and I still use AMD 8320-50s for PC builds when not building for gamers. Going forward after this year I will make the switch to Intel's 6600K CPUs to get some of my clients on the new DDR 4 standard for future proofing.

Brings back memories of days of Windows 3.1 :) thank you!

idk but intel processor is so reliable, last week after a sentimental goodbye, i just retired my intel pentium d 820 ( circa 2005) bundled with the solid asus p5vd2-x. up to now, its still working, can still play games, photshop 2016, runs good on win 7 but sluggish on windows 10, hence the need to now upgrade. but it survived, numerous ms office versions, from windows xp to vista etc. also i think it outlived 3 hardisks, 4 videocards and 2-3 ram (533mhz) changes and psu failures. im a heavy addicted gamer back then, with explosion of online games, from ragnarok, MU, ran, perfect world, flyff etc..and used it overnight for school work. my atx casing remained, and installed my new rig to it though rusted i repainted it and still got the vintage 3.5 floppy disk drive. i tell my sons this pc is older than you so you better respect and take good care of it but they dont care about pc’s anymore, they only know ipads and iphones.

It's crazy to think that just 2 short years after this video, AMD came to smoke Intel into a corner they won't escape for years to come

5:48 - 6:05 That's why I can still play DOOM 4 on a 2009 desktop with a i7-920 and a AMD 7970 at high settings.

Cyrix had x86 compatible CPUs with onboard graphics years ago, the MediaGX.

whats the difference between the old i7 (2andsomenumbershere) that some people are still using(that i7 that still runs modern games well) and newer i5/ i7 cpus

now explain amd's :) also talk about motorola's and powerpc's

i had the 300a running at 450 :) soo good.

Linus, would you ever consider doing a build for a secondary streaming PC for streaming to Twitch and whatnot?

do this for AMD!

Intel is absolute proof that when you have no competitors, you have no reason to have major upgrades. Like it's said in the video, when Amd was a major competitor, both companies were coming out with huge improvements every couple of years. If the new Zen is able to compete with Intel's high end chips, only then will you see another major release from them.

The standard IBM PC clock speed was 4.77 MHz, and the clones usually had a "turbo" switch that switched the clock to 8 MHz. That 10 MHz I have never heard being used anywhere. Also the famous IBM PC and it's clones used 8088, a cheaper variant of the noble 8086.

Yup and that small 8086 was a nightmare to manage the memory due to it being so small. Intel held off on that multicore CPU because they were pushing that primarily on the server Xeon chips. They held off well for a long time until they gave in to releasing it to the consumer market.

Meh, Intel history is boring compared to AMDs.

Imagine the processors 10-20years from now😍

Correction to 2:25 : Celeron 300A was the first retail CPU with integrated on-die L2 cache (clocked at full speed), not Pentium 3. That's why it was on par with way more expensive Pentium II (its 512KB cache was clocked at half speed).

Now this video is my style. But I prefer to say processor frequency in hertz. It sounds better for me that way.

Both Nvidia and Intel need some competition from AMD

proud to be malaysians (im malaysian) that CPUs made in malaysia but the price very high......................

@techquickie there needs to be a video on the best portable solar panel chargers out there!!

Does the turbo break down much and does it work good????

I wish the average Joe didn't exists we would have better computers these days if wasn't for it

I really wish they'd start recording in 60fps.....like some of the other tech channels I'm subbed to...looks like crap at 30 :/

How about an "As fast as possible..." explaining the difference between 4, 16, 32 and 64 bit processors (and why they're incompatible)? Also why we don't have 128-bit CPUs (yet). That's something I'd love to see.

The Athlon64 x2 was faster than the Pentium dual core (similar to a c2d but with less cache). I had a 3800+ Toledo core (2000MHz) that I ran 24/7 at 2750MHz, barely upping the vcore at all. Generally, the Toledo core seemed to clock higher than the Manchester core x2 by AMD. I think the A64 (single core) from 3000+ (1800MHz) to the 4000+ were introduced in 2006? Had a 939 socket 3500+ 2200MHz which clocked to 3280MHz (WR on air), or at least it used to be when ripping.org worked. Have the cpu-z link of the OC on my channel if anyone is interested.

WAY WAY BACK IN THE 1980S

My sister just said programmers are "pro gamers" facepalm*

I remember having 386,486,p1,p2 (including a duel cpu IBM server with 10,000rpm SCSI drives in RAID 0 ),p3,p4,e6850,q9550 up to current i7 3820! Few other things floating around like q6600,e6600 and e6750 but these all used stuff ive collected, and i remember some BS "SIS 686" or some crap many years ago, had awful driver support and loved to BSOD so i don't remember that one well.

cpu momentum has slowed down extremely unless they use graphite then the race is on again

Finally someone has mentioned that CPUs have stopped improving ! A CPU today tin 2016 is about 3 times faster than a CPU in 2002 for single thread usage, 15 years ago ! And many programs are not designed for multi thread, or multi core since it takes more work. And in 2002 CPU speed was at 3GHz and 15 years later in 2016 is STILL at 3GHz !!! WTF ??? Yes, there is more than just clock speed but it shows how things have stopped improving. In 2002 the NSA mentioned that consumers have TOO MUCH COMPUTING POWER and that is about when CPUs stopped doubling in speed / power , and barely improved at all ! Now 6 - 9 % per year at most, that is TERRIBLE !!!!!! And benchmarks always show multi core, not single threat, which is the better comparison since you don't have several areas of RAM to go with each core so a 4 core isn't 4 times as fast. It may be much faster at times and no faster at other times if it needs to use the RAM frequently. At least he mentioned it at 6:00, but should have went in more detail. We should have CPUs that run at 384GHz by now, with about 256GB of RAM and a 16 - 32TB hard drive. But RAM and hard drives have also almost stopped improving ! In 2007 we had 4 - 8GB of RAM and most computers now have 8 - 16GB of RAM, 8 years later ! It should be about 256GB of RAM ! Linus, go into detail about this ! And how Intel and other companies have transistors that run at 1000GHz, a TERAHERTS , but CPUs can't even run 1% of that ? 1% would be 10GHz, 10% would be 100GHz, we should be able to have that easily ! And with carbon nano tube strip or copper strips and spacing the chips and integrating heat pipes, the heat wouldn't be a problem either. It would just slow down if needed just like now. And 2TB hard drives have been around since 2009 and STILL BEING SOLD for most computers !!!!! They should be 2009, 2TB , 2011 4TB, 2013, 8TB, 2015 16TB, 2017 32TB. So at least 16TB hard drives !!!! And they still sell 1TB hard drives in many computers too ! Today, Aug 2016, Staples sells 2 computers for $499 and 699 with a 1TB hard drive and 8GB of RAM ! The same as 8 years ago in 2007 !!! This is progress ? And it is their fastest computers, not the cheapest slow ones either ! And even the one for $800 with a i7-6700 has 8GB of RAM and a TB hard drive ! The same RAM and hard drive size as in 2007 !!!!!

Ah yes, the 1970s... back when Intel manufactured microprocessors. Today they are in the space heater industry.

Even in 2021 my i960 from 10 years ago can still play a lot of modern games. It’s not my main system anymore as it bottlenecked my GPU but it’s still setup in the house when kids want to play online stuff. I can’t say that I was rocking our early 90s 386 in the year 2000.

AMD was first to 1GHz. Boo intel

Man this is outdated the whole part about AMD being uncompetitive

where do they get the pictures from

Intel stopped worrying half as much about performance because they started focusing more on power usage. Their central focus these days is making the highest efficiency in terms of power consumption that they can, while still delivering the same process power from before, at least, which, in combination, causes the processor to perform better overall. Additionally, it comes down to not just process cycles, but also what Else it can do. Right now, for instance, Intel is focusing on adding in high power video processing to consumer grade units, with the intent of making budget-model video cards no longer effectively necessary.

2:21 celeron mendocino was the first intel cpu with integrated l2 cache not the p3, this is why 300a was on par with the p2

very good video :) history of what we all love

thanks i hope i understand

I am disappointed you didn't mention that Pentium 4 (Prescott) ran so hot, they demanded a bed of dwarf gold and had to be returned to fires of Mount Doom when it came time to upgrade.

Not much was happening in the mid twenty-teens... and then Ryzen arrived!

What I know for sure is that I went shopping for a computer around the time when the 1Ghz barrier was broken, and those on offer were all AMD. And I foolishly let the salesman talk me into getting a 733 Mhz Pentium instead. But, hey, I was in the eighth grade, and it was my first computer since my 486.