> CPU performance really stalled out over the years. It can be fun to look through https://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleThread.html https://www.cpubenchmark.net/

> CPU performance really stalled out over the years. It can be fun to look through https://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleThread.html https://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleThread.html. In single-threaded performance, the cheapest retail processor I could find at a glance just now (the Intel Pentium Gold G6405) is about 1.4× as fast as the fastest processor of a decade ago, the i7-3960X. The i3-12100 is about 2× the i7-3960X. The i9-12900KS is about 2.4×. (And all this disregards memory performance improvements which I believe will make typical loads much fasterer still.) Then multithreaded performance, well, there you’re looking at more like 5× increases on high-end SKUs of both eras. (As for the Athlon XP 3000+, well, the i9-12900KS is around 10× single/170× multi on it.) Simple simplified simplistic summary: a similar grade of processor now is probably at least 2–4× as fast as the one of a decade ago for practical tasks, even ignoring other related improvements.