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Re:Steam: Half-Life 2 Hardware Survey (2004) by Bancakes on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @03:10AM (#30929296)
Interesting, let's take a look at the instructions per clock. Oh, yikes.

https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Pentium-4-380GHz...

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Re:Steam: Half-Life 2 Hardware Survey (2004) by actionfromafar on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @03:39AM (#30929475)
36% better memory latency.

Four times the single core performance.

Two decades.

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Re:Steam: Half-Life 2 Hardware Survey (2004) by korv on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @05:16AM (#30930062)
Ten times cheaper
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Re:Steam: Half-Life 2 Hardware Survey (2004) by Bancakes on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @03:46AM (#30929530)
It's not much compared to the two decades of 1980-2000, but it seems there's nothing interesting on the horizon for 2010-2030.
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Re:Steam: Half-Life 2 Hardware Survey (2004) by mhh__ on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @06:56AM (#30930635)
Aren't you comparing a fairly high end processor at the time (I wasn't alive when the pentium 4 came out, I think) with the bargain bin one from today? The new pentiums have the same microarchitecture but I don't know if they have all the execution units turned on + less cache.
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