These benchmarks show what a decade does for CPU performance
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As we wait for next-generation chips from AMD and Intel to hit the market, it's worth looking back down the steep mountain we've climbed in terms of performance per watt and transistor count. The folks at Phoronix dug deep into their hardware closets in celebration of the site's 11th birthday, and they cobbled together some systems based on Intel's Northwood and Prescott silicon: a 2.8GHz Pentium 4 "C" (SL6WT) and a 2.4GHz Celeron D 320, respectively. (We reviewed similar chips back in 2004-how time flies.) Phoronix then ran an extensive suite of benchmarks to see how the chips stack up to modern hardware.
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