I didn't run any formal benchmarks back then, but the performance I would get was on par with the fastest x86 and x86_64 machines I had running Linux in the mid

I didn't run any formal benchmarks back then, but the performance I would get was on par with the fastest x86 and x86_64 machines I had running Linux in the mid 2000s. For example, I would bring an SGI O2 with an R5000 CPU into my classroom running Gentoo with Fluxbox and let the students play with it. They would often comment about how fast it browsed the web and connected to our campus file and RDP servers, and were shocked when I told them the CPU only ran at 150Mhz!