Post #1649489
2026-03-17 19:24 UTC
@jguillaumes @lorry @cstross speaking of Moore’s Law… a few years ago I had a similar question and wondered if a Raspberry Pi (3? 4? I forget) had outpaced my 20y-old beast of a Dell Precision M65 workstation laptop that i keep in a drawer for nostalgia reasons.
Turns out, no! The old Core (2?) Duo still beat out the RasPi in single-threaded, and even I/O (I may had retrofitted it with an SSD?)
Perhaps i still have the numbers somewhere, and
I should repeat the benchmark with a RasPi5
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@jlargentaye@mas.to 2026-03-17 19:25
@jguillaumes @lorry @cstross (Obviously the RasPi beats the old laptop in performance-per-watt and -per-price)
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@cstross@wandering.shop 2026-03-17 20:02
@jlargentaye @jguillaumes @lorry The pi5 is a beast: need to get mine out somewhere semi-permanent and whack on it.