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> 60GB of RAM (EC2 c3.8xlarge)" which I wouldn't even pay for. The point isn't to restrict benchmarks to only high-end machines. The point is to use a stable s
by pritambaral 7y ago
> 60GB of RAM (EC2 c3.8xlarge)" which I wouldn't even pay for.
The point isn't to restrict benchmarks to only high-end machines. The point is to use a stable standard that people wouldn't have trouble running for a few hours. I can rent a machine of that identical type for 20 hours, or buy an RPi, for the low price of $35.
> about as powerful as my 5 year old air, 1.4GHz quadcore vs 1.6GHz quadcore
Core counts and clock speeds do not translate to comparable computing power across processor families and instruction sets. E.g., the RPi 4 (1.5GHz, quadcore) is announced to deliver 3x the performance of an RPi 3B+ (1.4GHz, quadcore), and that's on the same instruction set.