{"id":14125,"date":"2020-11-06T11:10:01","date_gmt":"2020-11-06T18:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/?p=14125"},"modified":"2021-11-30T10:00:10","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T17:00:10","slug":"computer-specs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/?p=14125","title":{"rendered":"Computer Specs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because I keep forgetting the specs of the various machines kicking around the house whilst shopping for new toys.<\/p>\n<p>Surprisingly my old Linux box isn&#8217;t as under powered as I thought. It just needs some RAM \ud83d\ude42 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 pass\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>chipcoresspeedramcacheGeekbench<br \/>\nSingleGeekbench<br \/>\nMultiGeekbench<br \/>\nGPU<\/p>\n<table>\n<thead><\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>i5 5287U (2015)<\/td>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<td>2.9GHz<\/td>\n<td>8GB<\/td>\n<td>L3 3MB<\/td>\n<td>795<\/td>\n<td>1463<\/td>\n<td>3035<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>i7 2620M (2011)<\/td>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<td>2.7GHz<\/td>\n<td>8GB<\/td>\n<td>L3 4MB<\/td>\n<td>672<\/td>\n<td>1455<\/td>\n<td>?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>AMD Athlon X2 7850 (2010)<\/td>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<td>2.8Ghz<\/td>\n<td>2GB<\/td>\n<td>L2 512k<\/td>\n<td>375<\/td>\n<td>724<\/td>\n<td>?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>i5 4260U (2014)<\/td>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<td>1.4GHz<\/td>\n<td>4GB<\/td>\n<td>L3 3MB<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>i5 5350U (2017)<\/td>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<td>1.8GHz<\/td>\n<td>8GB<\/td>\n<td>L3 3MB<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>i3 1000NG4 (2020)<\/td>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<td>1.1GHz<\/td>\n<td>8GB<\/td>\n<td>L3 4MB<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>i7-8700B (2018)<\/td>\n<td>6<\/td>\n<td>3.2GHz<\/td>\n<td>16GB<\/td>\n<td>L3 12MB<\/td>\n<td>1082<\/td>\n<td>5483<\/td>\n<td>n\/a<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>ARM BCM2835 (2020)<\/td>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<td>1.5GHz<\/td>\n<td>8GB<\/td>\n<td>n\/a<\/td>\n<td>225<\/td>\n<td>632<\/td>\n<td>n\/a<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>ARM BCM2835 (2020)<\/td>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<td>1.95GHz<\/td>\n<td>8GB<\/td>\n<td>n\/a<\/td>\n<td>275<\/td>\n<td>720<\/td>\n<td>n\/a<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>EDIT: I added the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geekbench.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Geekbench<\/a> 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).<\/p>\n<p>EDIT 2: (Nov 30, 2021) I added the Geekbench scores for the Pi (the unit that replaced Blackbox \u2014 the AMD Athalon) with both standard and overclocked numbers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;t as under powered as I thought. It just needs some RAM \ud83d\ude42 But then again the 2020 looks on paper to be the weakest link of the bunch so I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14125"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14125"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14786,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14125\/revisions\/14786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}