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Hardware does not get exponetially better. Maybe it did in 90ties and 00ers. Right now hardwardware gets slimmer, less power consuming and cheaper. But not bett
by 1ris 10y ago
Hardware does not get exponetially better. Maybe it did in 90ties and 00ers. Right now hardwardware gets slimmer, less power consuming and cheaper. But not better. My 12 year old (then mid-end gaming pc) is pretty much exactly as fast as my current, 2(?) year old office machine. (x264 and other mulit-threaed cpu benchbmarks) But it costs a fraction and uses next to no energy.
/edit: Yes this is wrong. I made a mistake. My "gaming" desktop is "only" 8 years old. It has a 4 core AMD processor. It's on par with current atoms.
- dTal 10y agoLove the redundancy of "90ties", but what's the etymology of "00ers"?
- rplst8 10y agoAugts?
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- yazaddaruvala 10y agoI pronounce "00ers" as "zeroes" Maybe it should be "00es"?
- Fuzzwah 10y agoNoughties
- ido 10y agoYour 12 years old pentium 4 (or whatever) likely has 1 core and 1 thread, which is immensely noticeable even compared to the lower end modern 2 cores/4 threads machines (let alone 4/8 mid level modern desktops).
- andrepd 10y agoThat's impossible. My 200$ is faster than your 12 year old computer.
- andrepd 10y agoThat's impossible. My 200$ phone is faster than your 12 year old computer.
- wongarsu 10y agoAn extremely low-energy atom, that runs at half the frequency might have about the same performance as a top-of the line 12-year old Pentium 4, but that's not a meaningful comparison in my eyes, considering that we still have high-end gaming PCs today. A 11 year old Pentium 4 @3.4GHz has a passmark score of 401. A modern 2-core $40 Celeron G1840 @2.80GHz has a passmark score of 2984. And that's among the cheapest processors you can get as end-user. 1: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Pentium+4+3.40GHz https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Pentium+4+3.4... 2: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Celeron+G1840+%40+2.80GHz&id=2268 https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Celeron+G1840...
- hueving 10y ago>that's not a meaningful comparison in my eyes, considering that we still have high-end gaming PCs today. It is meaningful when you consider what the average user is purchasing. Back then you had to purchase good stuff to run the latest office apps, etc. It was common that the only thing needed to get a friend into the gaming world was the purchase of a graphics card. Now most casual users do not have anything close to what is offered in high-end gaming PCs.
- emp_zealoth 10y agoRight now buying anything that doesnt have an atom gets you a literal monster. I've had a "decent" laptop (entry level i3 and entry level discrete AMD spits with disgust GPU) from 2010 and anything for the same price in 2016 will get you an order of magnitude more powerful machine