Re:The Old Computer Challenge
by geocrasher on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @10:20PM
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That's because of this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VideoCore
The rpi has hardware video acceleration even just a little bit, and the Celeron 1.4ghz laptop I had did not have any hardware acceleration of any kind. That was the difference really between my Phenom II X4 and the Ryzen 5 1400. Aside from obvious architecture differences, if my Phenom II had the video codecs built in, it'd have been plenty fast.
There's more to CPU's than clock speed and basic architecture. Features matter.
I wasn't running any hardware accelerated stuff except for video games. That would (I guess unintuitively) take up more memory.
Re:The Old Computer Challenge
by geocrasher on Friday July 09, 2021 @07:09AM
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OH I don't mean GPU accelerated, I mean that there are video codecs built into the CPU so they don't have to be done in software. That was the killer for my Phenom II.
That's a bit odd. I used a raspi (1GiB aarch64 sbc with WiFi and SD card) as a desktop in college and while it was unpleasant to have Firefox and LibreOffice open at the same time I don't think I ran into anything that flat out didn't load.