Yearly reminder that a Raspberry Pi is faster than the fastest Pentium 4 ever released.
Yearly reminder that a Raspberry Pi is faster than the fastest Pentium 4 ever released.
@codinghorror Note that the P4 still has a higher integer score, which is what matters most in general apps.
@codinghorror But can it run Slack?
@codinghorror And the @Raspberry_Pi now has @OpenCL support! github.com/doe300/VC4CL
@codinghorror @kennethreitz I envy that the kids these days have everything at their disposal in realizing their dreams. They are only limited by their imagination.
@codinghorror A $100 phone is faster than the $100 OLPC.
@codinghorror I'm pretty sure that you should use the same geekbench version on both platforms in order to have an acurate value that can be compared.
@codinghorror Please remember, the P4 was a failed attempt by Intel down a deadend in the space of CPU designs to optimize real-world execution performance of x86 code. Pls dont dumb-shame the CPU designer who thought all that register renaming and speculative execution would actually pay off.
@codinghorror No problem. We just keep bloating software to the the point where things need a 8-core i-9 to to do basically the same they did on the humble p4
@codinghorror You mean computational benchmark not core speed
@codinghorror I salvaged 12 P4 machines for a render farm in my previous job, ~8 years ago. PSUs of 500-600w each. Crazy to think I could have more power now in a fraction of the size of one of those machines. At a fraction of the power consumption. Wouldn't have to worry about blowing a fuse.
@codinghorror Links to geekbench runs browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/8763939 browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/11766723 RPi has multiple cores, too. I don’t know how many kids are actually learning stuff on these, though I’m on my phone on Saturday morning not wanting to get out of bed LOL.
@codinghorror And yet, Pentium IV powered millions of PCs, while RPi is nothing more than a porno mag for garage makers