Computer Specs
Because I keep forgetting the specs of the various machines kicking around the house whilst shopping for new toys.
Surprisingly my old Linux box isn’t as under powered as I thought. It just needs some RAM 🙂 But then again the 2020 looks on paper to be the weakest link of the bunch so I guess the old way of counting such things is a bit passé.
chipcoresspeedramcacheGeekbench
SingleGeekbench
MultiGeekbench
GPU
i5 5287U (2015) | 2 | 2.9GHz | 8GB | L3 3MB | 795 | 1463 | 3035 |
i7 2620M (2011) | 2 | 2.7GHz | 8GB | L3 4MB | 672 | 1455 | ? |
AMD Athlon X2 7850 (2010) | 2 | 2.8Ghz | 2GB | L2 512k | 375 | 724 | ? |
i5 4260U (2014) | 2 | 1.4GHz | 4GB | L3 3MB | |||
i5 5350U (2017) | 2 | 1.8GHz | 8GB | L3 3MB | |||
i3 1000NG4 (2020) | 2 | 1.1GHz | 8GB | L3 4MB | |||
i7-8700B (2018) | 6 | 3.2GHz | 16GB | L3 12MB | 1082 | 5483 | n/a |
ARM BCM2835 (2020) | 4 | 1.5GHz | 8GB | n/a | 225 | 632 | n/a |
ARM BCM2835 (2020) | 4 | 1.95GHz | 8GB | n/a | 275 | 720 | n/a |
EDIT: I added the Geekbench scores and the real story emerges about my tired old PC. Current fast chips are scoring 1400+ (1600 for the ultra high-end ones) and the best Macs are coming in around 1200 (pre-M1).
EDIT 2: (Nov 30, 2021) I added the Geekbench scores for the Pi (the unit that replaced Blackbox — the AMD Athalon) with both standard and overclocked numbers.