Comparing old and new processors

Phoronix celebrated their 11th birthday by comparing modern CPUs to old Socket 478 CPUs with the NetBurst Celeron and Pentium 4C on an Intel 875P+ICH5R motherboard. These old NetBurst processors were compared to modern Core and Atom processors.

The comparison results can be foudn at Comparing Today’s Modern CPUs To Intel’s Socket 478 Celeron & Pentium 4 article. With these processors from ~2003, they were compared to a variety of modern systems ranging from Intel Haswell Xeons and Core i7 EE systems to the low-power Intel Compute Stick to Intel Bay Trail and Broadwell NUCs to other x86 boxes. For making it really interesting, it was also compared to the NVIDIA Jetson TK1 with Tegra K1 quad-core Cortex-A15 SoC as well as a Freescale i.MX6 ARM board.