Human Brain EnthusiastIs there single/multicore benchmark for CPUs that makes current-generation CPUs comparable with stuff from say the mid-90s onwards?
I'd like to specifically compare how fast a G4 (e.g. PowerPC 7455) is versus current Apple M5.
David Smith@thomasfuchs @joe really janky way of estimating, but: the Cell PPE/Xenon cores (same uarch) were “essentially” dual G4s at half the clock frequency, since they were in-order and alternated two threads.
So if you can find a usable single threaded comparison between a modern system and the Xbox 360 or PS3, that’ll get you a hypothetical “1.6GHz G4 with less anemic frontside bus”.
Then you could try to estimate the remaining scaling by comparing G4s and extrapolating.
@thomasfuchs @joe as a calibration: the Switch 1 gets ~300-350 on geekbench 6, the M5 gets ~4300, and the Switch was a noticeable upgrade from the Wii U’s “1.24GHz G3 with weird non-AltiVec vectors” (should be vaguely G4-like), so any numbers you get showing less than 15x or so are probably suspect.